Summary
Waleed Hammam is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems using Python, Golang, Kubernetes, and message brokers like Google Pub/Sub and Kafka. He has a strong track record of shipping reliability and automation improvements—reducing customer support costs by 40% at Nana and cutting installation time for Weave GitOps Enterprise to under 20 minutes with a custom CLI. Waleed excels in payment integrations, observability, and GitOps-driven infrastructure, and has optimized release pipelines to halve release time. He mentors peers, works closely with SREs to resolve production issues, and champions simplifying dependencies and documentation to enable open-source adoption. Based in Cairo, he pairs a Computer Systems and Control Engineering degree with hands-on experience across startups and platform teams, often bridging deep engineering work with product-focused outcomes. A detail some peers notice: he blends low-level tooling work (CLIs, automation, secret bootstrapping) with customer-facing automation that directly reduces operational costs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems and Control Engineering, Good, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems and Control Engineering, Good at Mansoura University
Arabic, English, French