Mohamed Elsayed
Technical Team Lead at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Elsayed is a Technical Team Lead with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently leading development and HPC cluster management at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He combines hands-on coding and architecture oversight with people management, driving project lifecycles, code quality, and monthly progress reporting while ensuring researchers have reliable, up-to-date compute environments. His background spans web applications (JSF, A4J, Hibernate, Spring) and large-scale infrastructure work—administering 2000+ nodes, automating account workflows (noAdmin), and deploying HDFS for web-archiving pipelines. An active contributor to open-source web-archiving tools, he enhanced the OpenWayback UI with accessibility and usability improvements, showing a focus on practical, researcher-facing features. Colleagues rely on him to translate researcher needs into stable, automated systems and to shepherd projects from prototype to secure production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering, Very Good, Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering, Very Good at Alexandria University
English, Arabic, Italian
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
javascript10
jspx10
front-end-development10
jsp10
jquery9
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iipc/openwayback
Jun 2013 - Aug 2017
The OpenWayback Development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 14 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed primarily contributed to the frontend development of the `openwayback` project, with a focus on the user interface of the BubbleCalendar feature. Their work involved modifying the JSP files to extend the year chart automatically, adding a horizontal scrollbar, implementing tooltips, and enabling scrolling via keyboard and touch-swipe. They also made adjustments to the toolbar, particularly concerning the search and year chart display, to improve usability and responsiveness.
arcalex/warcrefs
Jul 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 32 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 4 months
web-archivearchivededuplication
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