Mohammed Al Ashaal
Head Of Engineering at Cartona
Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
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Top SchoolMohammed Al Ashaal is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently heads engineering at Cartona, having progressed from Engineering Manager and prior technical lead roles. He focuses on building resilient infrastructure and delivery platforms—“the ground companies stand on”—rather than just individual features, and favors simple, effective solutions to complex problems. Hands-on with backend systems, he’s the primary author on open-source projects like sqler and redix, turning SQL into REST APIs and implementing Redis-like semantics on Postgres while adding caching, pub/sub, and JS-based transformations. His career blends team leadership with deep backend craftsmanship across startups in Egypt’s Red Sea region, shipping production-grade systems at scale. Notably, he pairs architectural thinking with direct contributions to core code and documentation, ensuring ideas are both designed and executed.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Postponed Economics, Postponed Economics at Minufiya UniversityEngineering, Engineering at Tanta University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
key-value-store10
redis10
api-design10
restful-api10
databases10
hashmap10
go10
sql10
rest-api10
pubsub10
database10
javascript9
apim9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alash3al/sqler
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
write APIs using direct SQL queries with no hassle, let's rethink about SQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 70 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the sqler project, which involves turning SQL queries into RESTful APIs. Their work includes adding core features like authorizing API access, implementing caching mechanisms based on Redis, and enhancing the core to enable more features, including integrating a javascript interpreter for more sophisticated transformation. The user was also responsible for the general code organization and documentation.
mysqlsql-queriessqldirectdatabase
alash3al/redix
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
a very simple pure key => value storage system that speaks Redis protocol with Postgres as storage engine and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 225 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed made several enhancements to the core functionality of the `redix` project, focusing on string and hash-related commands. They implemented new commands such as `hexists`, `hincr`, and `httl`, extending the capabilities of the key-value store. Furthermore, they refactored existing commands such as `hgetall`, and other related logic. They introduced support for basic pub/sub functionalities.
golangredisbadgerdbnosqlredis-protocol
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