Shehab Abdel-salam
Senior Software Engineer at Proofpoint
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShehab Abdel-salam is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of engineering experience and 7+ years focused on B2B SaaS. He currently helps scale Tessian’s security products as part of Proofpoint after the acquisition, bringing strong platform and backend expertise honed at Faculty and Dell. His work spans performance-focused migrations (Python to Rust yielding 5x speedups), building developer tooling (VS Code extensions and language-server validation for domain-specific files), and running production platform infrastructure across Kubernetes and multi-architecture releases. A former graduate teaching assistant with an MS in Computer Science, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical delivery, from on-prem Kubernetes to predictive insights platforms. He also writes a bi-weekly newsletter, The Proactive Engineer, reflecting a continuous drive to share lessons and stay curious.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.84/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.84/4.0 at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shehab-as/shehab-as.github.io
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:169 pushes in 7 years 8 months
shehab-as/TinyImageNet-KaggleCompetition
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
Assignment 3 of Machine Learning Course: miniature of ImageNet classification challenge
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
imagenetpythonimagenet-classificationdeep-learningmachine-learning-course
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