Muhamad Awad is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience in system design, architecture, and building large-scale cloud and distributed systems, currently based in Laarne, Belgium. He has led teams and engineered foundational pieces of decentralized and zero-configuration operating systems—most recently as team lead for ThreeFold’s ZOS and earlier work on Zero-OS and its custom container and distributed filesystem components. Proficient in Rust and Go and fluent in low-level Linux, networking, storage and virtualization, he combines hands-on implementation with capacity planning and performance optimization for high-IOPS environments. His career spans productizing cloud OS primitives, custom container engines, FUSE-based cloud filesystems and high-performance NBD servers, reflecting deep system-level craftsmanship. Known for building compact, secure OS images and pragmatic automation, he enjoys turning complex infrastructure requirements into lightweight, resilient platforms. Open to challenging roles where he can drive technical excellence and continue innovating at the intersection of distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Very Good, Electroinc Engineering, Communication, Very Good, Electroinc Engineering, Communication at Mansoura University
Contributions:2 releases, 38 PRs, 162 pushes in 4 months
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