Mohamed Sayed
Engineering Manger at Transport for Cairo
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Sayed is an engineering manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building backend systems and leading teams across mobility and fintech. He recently moved up from senior backend engineer to engineering manager at SumUp, after helping optimize network planning at FlixBus and leading backend teams at The D. GmbH. As co-founder and former tech director of Transport for Cairo, he blends product-minded engineering with civic-minded open data initiatives to improve urban mobility. Known for preferring concise, elegant code, he focuses on pragmatic systems that scale while mentoring engineers to do the same. His background spans founding startups, running maker workshops, and hands-on technical leadership, showing a rare mix of community-driven impact and production-grade engineering. Fluent in building both teams and APIs, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a systems-level view to complex distributed problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Orman High School for boys, Dokki, GizaSocial Development, Social Development at Namaa' School for Sustainable DevelopmentEngineer's degree Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Engineering at Helwan University Cairo
Arabic, English
Github Skills (53)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
ecommerce9
shopping-cart9
commerce9
cartridge7
gwt7
mongoose-plugin6
italia6
nodejs6
npm-package6
laravel6
sink6
ffmpeg5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arabdigitalexpression/nadmig
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:235 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
cartridgepm/cpm_cli
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Cartridge Package Manager, is a PM that uses Docker as its main engine, to ensure isolation of the running program from the host OS and the ability to carbon copy your programs from one OS to another.
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
isolationhostpackage-managerabilitydocker
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