Ramy Elkest
Engineering Manager at Datadog
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRamy Elkest is a Principal Engineer based in London with 14 years of hands-on experience building and evolving large-scale flight management and customer platforms at Amadeus. He progressed from a graduate engineer to technical lead across middleware, core component architecture, frontend applications and a migration from monolith to microservices, demonstrating full-stack fluency across C++, Java/Aria, Angular and platform automation (OpenShift/Helm). Ramy has a track record of rebuilding mission-critical systems—such as a DBM re-engineering to handle aircraft engineering data—and optimising safety-critical domains like weight-and-balance computation. Early roles include database migration leadership and porting a Java applet to HTML5, reflecting a practical mix of backend, frontend and data migration expertise. He pairs deep technical problem solving with architectural stewardship, often working in small, highly technical teams to deliver scalable, production-grade solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of YorkComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
Github Skills (138)
hugo10
python10
distributed-tracing10
security10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
editor10
napi10
debugging10
observability10
electron10
typescript10
opentracing10
apm10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RamyElkest/apollo-chat-api
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 49 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 months
apichatchat-apigraphql-serverapollo-server
SOCR/SocrMotionChartsHTML5
May 2012 - Jan 2017
Google Summer of Code SOCR Project
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
googlegoogle-summer-of-codesocrsummerjavascript
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