Mina Asham
Software Engineer at Figma
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMina Asham is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale systems across Microsoft, Amazon, Shopify, and now Figma from her base in Edinburgh. Her background spans search and cross-lingual information retrieval at Bing, automated talent-sourcing and dynamic advertising at Amazon, and senior platform leadership at Shopify, demonstrating deep expertise in scalable backend systems and ML-infused search. Mina moves comfortably between research-driven solutions (KCCA/LSA and cross-lingual classifiers) and product engineering, shipping measurable relevance and automation improvements in international markets. She combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—mentoring teams and shaping architecture at senior staff level before joining Figma. An early freelancer and polyglot builder, she also has practical experience in web, scraping, and mobile tooling that surfaces in pragmatic, production-ready designs. Collected across industry leaders, her career reflects a rare blend of research rigor and operational excellence applied to complex, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at Cairo UniversityEgyptian GCSE, Engineering, Egyptian GCSE, Engineering at Collège De La Salle
Arabic, French, English
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Github Skills (134)
python10
accelerator10
terraform10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
google-bigquery10
redis-client10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
sdk10
sql10
neural-network10
high-performance10
ai-framework10
aws-cloud10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mina-asham/algs4-CSharp
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:83 commits, 36 pushes in 2 months
mina-asham/OffHeapLargeCollections
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:87 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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