Mahmoud Zalt
Founder & CEO at Sista AI
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Mahmoud Zalt is a founder and seasoned technologist with 16+ years of experience building production-grade systems and 11 years in professional roles spanning backend, full-stack, DevOps, and applied AI. Based in Amsterdam, he currently leads Sista AI, overseeing research-to-deployment for AI platforms while advising startups and enterprises on architecture and measurable AI outcomes. He has a strong track record scaling systems and teams—from rearchitecting large Rails services and high-throughput APIs to founding and mentoring major open-source projects like Laradock and Apiato that collectively onboarded hundreds of contributors. Mahmoud blends hands-on engineering with leadership, regularly splitting time between coding, system architecture, and hiring/mentorship. His recent focus is agentic and private LLM stacks, combining R&D with pragmatic reliability and observability practices across cloud-native infrastructures. An entrepreneurial builder at heart, he quietly accelerates developer productivity through tooling and community-driven open-source work.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing at The Open University
English, French, Arabic, Dutch
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Github Skills (33)
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docker10
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laravel10
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php10
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nginx10
laravel-mix9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laradock/laradock
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Full PHP development environment for Docker.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 releases, 707 commits, 373 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mahmoud primarily focused on configuring and integrating a PHP development environment within a Docker container. Their commits involved setting the application URL in the config file, removing testing code, and integrating code changes. They adapted the configuration files of the nginx web server to work with multiple projects. The user also moved documentation and improved the overall setup and user experience.
docker-imagexdebugcomposerphp-developmentphp-docker-image
Mahmoudz/fyber-php-sdk
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 30 commits, 18 pushes in 4 months
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