Mahmoud Shawara
Senior Software Engineer at Luzmo
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolMahmoud Shawara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cairo with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and driving cost and latency optimizations at scale. He has a strong track record across regional tech leaders—cutting ClickHouse costs by 35% at Luzmo, halving Google Maps API usage at Careem for ~25M daily requests, and refactoring monoliths into microservices at Swvl. Comfortable with systems-level work in Rust and containerized infrastructures, he also designs features end-to-end and owns production stabilization efforts. A competitive programmer by background, Mahmoud combines algorithmic rigor with practical engineering to improve observability, scalability, and infra efficiency. He holds a Computer Science degree and has repeatedly reduced operational costs while improving performance across diverse product domains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4 at Faculty of Computers and Information
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Github Skills (62)
javascript10
http-client10
nodejs10
mysql9
mariadb9
jsonb9
mssqlserver9
postgresql9
django9
typescript9
sqlite9
coreapi9
mssql9
django-rest-swagger9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shawara/slack-daily-memes
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
shawara/ChatUp
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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