Yousef Akbar
Senior Engineer - Demand & Delivery Management at Ooredoo Kuwait
Kuwait City, Capital Governorate
Summary
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Top SchoolYousef Akbar is a Senior Engineer in Demand & Delivery Management with seven years of experience designing end-to-end solutions across cloud, DevOps, and eCommerce ecosystems. At Ooredoo Kuwait he leads delivery of enterprise projects, integrating CRM, DWH, and real-time charging while building foundational DevOps infrastructure that ties technical work to business outcomes. A UC Davis computer engineering graduate, he pairs firmware and embedded robotics experience with modern cloud architecture—evidenced by past work on sensor-based Linkbot systems and contributions to the NeoMutt open-source email client where he refactored keymap internals and strengthened authentication validators. Known for bridging deep technical detail with stakeholder needs, he brings an engineer’s rigor to solution architecture and a practical security-minded perspective from his cybersecurity interests.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of California, DavisHigh School Diploma, IGCSE, High School Diploma, IGCSE at The British School of Kuwait
Arabic, English
Github Skills (15)
e-mail10
c1710
send-email10
authentication10
protocols10
c1110
mutt10
sendmail10
cli10
auth10
imap9
smtp8
pop38
smtpd8
smtps8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
neomutt/neomutt
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yousef's primary contribution focused on refactoring and improving the keymap functionality within the NeoMutt email client. This involved converting keymaps to use STAILQ for more efficient data management, and adjusting related functions to utilize the new data structure. The changes included modifications to `keymap.c`, `help.c`, and `keymap.h`, demonstrating a deep understanding of the application's core logic and data structures. Additionally, the user integrated validators for various authentication methods, including IMAP, POP, and SMTP authenticators, and validated the Cyrus SASL methods.
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yousefakbar/yousefakbar
Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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