Mazen Magdy
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolMazen Magdy is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on large-scale server-side applications and distributed systems, now building at AWS. He spent five years at Instabug rising to Backend Technical Lead, where he led backend teams, owned production uptime and scalability, and designed large-scale features like flame graph aggregation across thousands of stack traces. He has hands-on expertise in Go, Ruby/RoR, Redis, Elasticsearch and MySQL, and has delivered zero-downtime migrations of billion-row tables and a 10x cost reduction by optimizing iOS crash symbolication. Comfortable in on-call rotations and hiring/mentoring, he combines operational rigor with product-minded architecture. Based in Cairo, he brings a blend of practical engineering, systems thinking, and a knack for squeezing order—and cost savings—out of complex production systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at The German University in CairoIGCSE, 97%, IGCSE, 97% at Egyptian British International SchoolBachelor Thesis, Computer Science, A+, Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science, A+ at Ulm University
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (37)
code-library10
combinatorics9
continuous-integration9
typescript9
elastic8
data-structures8
openshift8
continuous-delivery8
continuous-deployment8
continuous-testing8
devops7
kubernetes7
ruby7
rubynlp7
backend7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheRealImaginary/CompetitiveProgramming
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
TheRealImaginary/se-miniproject
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 58 pushes, 14 branches in 16 days
reactmetcssjavascriptnodejs
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