Mustafa Abdelrahman is a junior software engineer based in Berlin with 9 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems. He currently contributes to Zalando’s open-source skipper project, enhancing its HTTP routing and security with features like content-based request filtering and OAuth2 route authentication. His background as a DevOps engineer includes designing scalable infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and automating observability across multiple cloud providers. Comfortable switching between backend development and platform engineering, he has a track record of improving performance and reliability in production services. A Cairo University computer science graduate and anime fan who occasionally plays League of Legends, he brings both technical rigor and a collaborative team mindset to fast-paced engineering environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Very Good, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Very Good at Cairo University
High School, Mathematics and Physics, 97.5%, High School, Mathematics and Physics, 97.5% at Omar Ibn Abdel Aziz School
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:196 reviews, 22 commits, 226 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mustafa contributed extensively to the `zalando/skipper` repository, focusing on the core functionality of the HTTP router and reverse proxy. Their commits introduced a content-based block filter to block malicious requests, implemented OAuth2 authentication for routes, and added the ability to edit and clone routes. The user also addressed bugs and improved the overall performance of the application.
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Mustafa Abdelrahman - Junior Software Engineer at Zalando