Summary
Meena Alfons is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade-long passion for building systems across web, desktop, mobile and embedded domains. She has led engineering teams and product architecture from early-stage startups to high-throughput production at MessageBird, where she helped operate Pusher clusters handling millions of concurrent users and tens of millions of messages per second. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Golang, C++, Node.js, TypeScript, Kotlin/Swift) she blends deep systems engineering with product-minded design, shipping SDKs, unified auth, and automated integration testing against production. As a former software architect and startup builder she has hands-on experience hiring and mentoring engineers, shaping requirements, and turning prototypes into polished, low-latency products. Her MSc in Artificial Intelligence complements a practical focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience. Colleagues know her as a resourceful thinker who moves from low-level C++ hardware integrations to cloud-native distributed systems with equal fluency.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc. Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MSc. Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Bachelor's Degree Computers and Systems Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computers and Systems Electrical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering at Assiut University
Arabic, English