Mohamed Saleh
Staff Software Engineer at Yelp
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMohamed Saleh is a Staff Software Engineer based in the UK with 8 years of experience building scalable, reliable backend systems across startups and large tech companies like Amazon and Yelp. He excels in designing microservices and high-throughput architectures using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MySQL and GraphQL, with a strong background in spatial data and large-scale indexing from earlier work on Taghreed. Known for caring about the what, why and how of engineering, he combines hands-on problem solving with system-level thinking to improve reliability and correctness. Mohamed actively contributes to open-source quality by adding failing tests and fixing issues in libraries like fastcore, demonstrating a test-first mindset. His career shows a pattern of moving between rapid-growth environments and production-grade platforms, making him effective at shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions. He pairs engineering rigor with curiosity about data-intensive systems, evident from projects spanning GIS, logging/logistics, and search.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering and Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering and Systems at Faculty of Engineering ,Alexandria University
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Github Skills (11)
pytest10
py10
python10
testing10
data-structure7
data-structures7
functional-programming6
fonts6
wordcloud6
numpy6
radix6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AnswerDotAI/fastcore
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Python supercharged for the fastai library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed primarily focused on identifying and fixing issues within the codebase. They added failing tests, then subsequently fixed those tests by modifying the source code. Their contributions involved modifying existing tests and adding new test cases to the project. The changes suggest an active role in improving the reliability and correctness of the `fastcore` library.
dispatchloopspythonfunctional-programmingdocumentation-generator
Salehbigdeli/architectural-py
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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