Mohammad Al Alwa
Software Engineer at Zalando
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMohammad Al Alwa is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in backend systems built with Java and Spring Boot, currently contributing at Zalando from Dortmund. He has designed and delivered event-driven architectures, payment integrations, and search platforms across streaming, fintech, and SaaS products—most notably building ViuLive’s backend, an AI-driven video moderation pipeline, and a cloud search service with custom Solr tokenizers for Arabic. Mohammad combines performance tuning (e.g., 50% Redis memory reduction, 60% chroma detection speedup, 70% Solr index size cut) with pragmatic product-focused development, including PPV monetization and multi-gateway wallet integrations. Comfortable taking projects from ideation through deployment and monitoring, he adds reliability through automated tests and Testcontainers while working closely with product, UX, and stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Software Engineering at Damascus University
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
tla8
specification7
decimal6
ruby-on-rails6
php6
bigdecimal6
spring6
python6
ruby6
java6
tuples6
multidimensional-arrays6
phalcon5
water2
rewrite2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
m-alow/schoolity
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:321 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
mohammad-alow/php_comp
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 10 days
compilerphp-compilerphp
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