Summary
Mina Sami is a freelance senior software engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience and a 15-year career arc building resilient backend systems and APIs across PHP, Node.js, Docker and Linux. He has repeatedly improved platform reliability and delivery—cutting deployment time by 30%, production bugs by 25%, and boosting security posture by 60% through audits and secure coding. Mina blends individual contributor depth with leadership: he has acted as interim CTO, led hiring and roadmaps, mentored developers, and translated customer needs into practical architectures. He excels at API design and integrations (including Azure Data Factory and Zapier) and automating workflows that materially increase business metrics like lead conversion. Based in Purmerend, Netherlands, he favors simple, efficient code and continuous learning, and often pairs technical fixes with process and pipeline improvements that stick.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Helwan University Cairo