Salma Khater
Principal Backend Engineer at Andela
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolSalma Khater is a Principal Backend Engineer based in Cairo with 11 years of experience building backend systems and guiding engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. Currently at Andela, she brings deep expertise in modern, open-source development stacks and the Typesafe stack, pairing hands-on implementation with architectural leadership. Her background includes leading backend teams at Swvl and managing engineering efforts that span full-stack development, schema design for SQL and NoSQL databases, and technology evaluation. Salma has a track record of adopting bleeding-edge tools, training newcomers, and delivering pragmatic solutions in fast-moving environments. She combines academic grounding in computer science from Mansoura University with practical experience in mentoring and developer enablement. Notably, her career blends individual contributor depth with proven people-management and technology-selection skills that help teams move quickly and reliably.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Mansoura UniversityInformation Technology Institute
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (18)
cassandra-driver8
kafka6
akka6
scala6
cassandra4
codeclimate4
rabbitmq3
linting3
eslint3
javascript3
ruby3
web-token2
static-analysis2
json2
linter2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SalmaKhater/Learning-Akka
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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