Mustafa Magdi
Founder & CTO at Plato
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolMustafa Magdi is a founder and CTO with over a decade of engineering experience, specializing in PHP-backend architectures and modern microservices that power high-scale web and mobile products. He has led engineering teams across marketplaces and travel platforms—most recently as Head of Engineering at Tradeling and Senior Engineering Manager at Jumia—while founding Fehris and co-founding Safra to apply his product-driven technical vision. Mustafa blends deep framework expertise (Yii2, Symfony, Laravel, Magento), Node.js, and front-end frameworks with search/indexing technologies like Sphinx and Solr to deliver performant APIs. Known for strong architectural discipline and mentoring (active with Plato), he balances hands-on development with leadership and writes about engineering practices for Codeburst. Based in Dubai, he complements his technical background with an MBA-level business perspective, making him effective at translating strategic goals into resilient engineering roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Minia UniversityMaster's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at ESLSCA University
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Github Skills (27)
php10
chinese-simplified10
yii9
php-framework9
eloquent7
laravel7
mongodb7
codeigniter6
google-maps6
forms6
jquery6
sencha-touch6
javascript6
cordova6
orm4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MustafaMagdi/Symfony4
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 5 pushes in 5 months
MustafaMagdi/yii2-blog-mongodb
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 18 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
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