Yasir Mohamed
Senior Software Engineer at GetYourGuide
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYasir Mohamed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems and improving developer tooling and processes. He has led engineering efforts at Qualtrics to design a configuration-driven canary testing platform, scale big data ingestion to 16K ops/sec, and re-architect legacy systems for 150% performance gains, and now contributes at GetYourGuide. Comfortable across the stack, Yasir has modernized monoliths into microservices, built fault-tolerant APIs handling hundreds of millions of events daily, and automated deployments and containerization initiatives at Mastercard. His background combines rigorous academic training (Master’s and Bachelor’s in CS, both with top honors) with hands-on pragmatism from freelance full‑stack work using varied tech like Node.js, Ruby on Rails and Haskell. Known for quietly winning high-stakes contracts through pragmatic caching and performance solutions, he blends systems-level thinking with a taste for improving internal developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours (1.1), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours (1.1) at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (21)
google-play8
spotify-api8
spotify7
migrate7
music6
linear-regression6
regression5
machine-learning-algorithms5
commons4
xorg3
data-science3
machine-learning3
desktop2
slideshow2
linux2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mohamey/gpm_to_spotify
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Tool to migrate song library from Google Play Music to Spotify
Contributions:85 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
songmusic-playgoogle-play-musicspotifygoogle-play
mohamey/distro-file-system
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:97 commits, 59 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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