Mohamed Sayed
Engineering Manger at SumUp
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 (40)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
ecommerce9
php9
laravel-form6
laravel-framework6
npm-package6
youtube6
nodejs5
ffmpeg5
laravel5
txt5
classification5
javascript5
mongoose5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arabdigitalexpression/nadmig
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:235 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
mmahrous/thumbler
Oct 2016 - Jul 2019
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Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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