Raouf Aghrout
Staff Software Engineer at SmartNews
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolRaouf Aghrout is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience shaping resilient, high-throughput systems and end-to-end architectures across e-commerce, advertising, and consumer apps. He has led technical strategy for mission‑critical platforms—most recently pricing and discounting at HelloFresh handling ~2.5M orders daily and a €1B+ marketing stack—and driven legacy modernization while delivering incremental business value. Comfortable owning architecture, delivery and cross-functional collaboration, he has built everything from real-time bidding and data pipelines ingesting billions of events to full‑stack e-commerce flows and logistics at scale. Known for championing lean practices and pragmatic design, he pairs technical depth with strong stakeholder relationships across product, UX, commercial and data teams. Now based in Tokyo, he combines startup velocity with enterprise-grade rigor and a track record of turning complex domains into simple, reliable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, AS & A-Level, GCSE, AS & A-Level at Stretford Grammar School & Sixth FormBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, with Year in Inudstry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, with Year in Inudstry at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, French, Arabic, German, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
java8
active-learning6
rotation6
aws-security-group6
math6
cpp5
vpc5
reinforcement-learning5
machine-learning5
aws-vpc4
python4
aws4
terraform-module3
vowpal-wabbit3
frontier3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raoufaghrout/quick-brew
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
raouf-aghrout/head-first-java
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Head First Java, 2nd Edition - Book exercises.
Contributions:40 commits in 5 months
javabook-exercisesheadhead-first-java
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