Wahid Shalaly is a pragmatic, hands-on Solutions Architect based in Sydney with 12 years of experience designing and delivering resilient enterprise systems across industries including retail, geospatial, and insurance. He combines deep .NET backend expertise and technical leadership—demonstrated by bug-fixing and core improvements to the popular Humanizer library—with practical delivery experience at firms such as WooliesX, Nearmap and Hannover Re. Known for turning complex domain requirements into maintainable solutions, he moves comfortably between coding, architecture and leading teams. His Masters in Engineering Management complements a strong computational-science foundation from Cairo University, enabling him to balance technical rigor with delivery priorities. An active open-source contributor, he quietly improves developer tooling and time/date correctness in production-grade libraries.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc in Science, Computational Science, Mathematics, B.Sc in Science, Computational Science, Mathematics at Cairo University
Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Management, Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Management at University of Colorado Boulder
Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Wahid primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Humanizer library. Their contributions included addressing issues related to date and time calculations, such as the February's issue. The user made changes to the core logic within `DateHumanizeExtensions.cs` and corrected tests in `DateHumanizeTests.cs` to ensure accurate date and time formatting. Further refactoring efforts were evident, including the replacement of static resource keys with dynamic ones.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.