Tarek El-samni
Computer Scientist
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTarek El-samni is a Principal software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building highly available, scalable distributed systems and leading remote engineering teams. Based in Cambridge on a Global (Exceptional) Talent visa, he combines an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire with deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker), multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, IaC and observability. He excels at migrating legacy systems to modern, resilient cloud platforms and has a proven track record of tech coaching, interviewing and scaling distributed teams across startups and large enterprises. Strong grounding in CS fundamentals (OOP, SOLID, algorithms, CAP/ACID) complements his practical experience in batch and stream processing, concurrency and performance optimization. Colleagues know him for turning complex architectural constraints into pragmatic, production-ready designs while mentoring others to adopt best practices. Outside work he balances rigorous engineering with family life in Cambridge, bringing a collaborative, long-term mindset to team and system design.
13 years of coding experience
MSc., Computer Science, MSc., Computer Science at University of HertfordshireBSc., Computer Science, BSc., Computer Science at Ain Shams UniversityV. Good, English Course for 2 months, V. Good, English Course for 2 months at University of Gloucestershire
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (144)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shebang-labs/DockUp
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
DockUp is a Ruby dockerized backup solution that supports different backends like: S3, Azure blob storage, Google cloud storage, local filesystem, etc.
Contributions:87 commits, 44 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 5 months
google-cloudstoragebackup-solutiondockerizedgoogle-cloud-storage
tareksamni/screeps
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:418 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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