Summary
Rana Afifi is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building robust backend and systems solutions across industry leaders including Uber, Dell Technologies, and Microsoft. She blends research-driven work—spanning dependable systems, side-channel security, and distributed machine learning—with practical service engineering for text analytics and large-scale deployments. Comfortable in domains from blockchain and NLP to edge computing and security, she moves between prototyping and production while pursuing a Masters in Computer Engineering. Based in Amsterdam, she brings a global academic and industrial background (Cairo University, EPFL, ETH Zurich) that fuels a curiosity for cross-disciplinary problems. Notably, her career includes both low-level systems contributions (OS drivers, security mitigations) and cloud-native service quality work such as benchmarking and regional rollouts.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Thanweya Amma - Mathematics Branch, Thanweya Amma - Mathematics Branch at Orouba Language School , Maadi
Pre-Master's degree, Pre-Master's degree at Cairo University
English, Arabic, French