Youssef Eldakar
Head Of Department at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
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Top SchoolYoussef Eldakar is a seasoned software leader with two decades of experience specializing in cluster computing, open-source systems, and automation, currently serving as Head of Department at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He architected and scaled flagship initiatives there—the BA web archive and the BA supercomputing service—bringing HPC resources to researchers across Egypt and collaborating on European projects like LinkSCEEM-2 and VI-SEEM. Hands-on throughout his career, he built practical tooling such as RackTk, WARCrefs, Crawl Log Animator, and the noAdmin cluster account automation, blending elegant code with operational rigor. His background includes direct early collaboration with Brewster Kahle on web archiving and launching BA’s digitization encoding systems, reflecting deep domain expertise in digital preservation. Known for a passion for beautiful source code and the craft of writing, he pairs technical leadership with clear communication and cross-institutional partnership. Based in Alexandria, Egypt, he brings a rare combination of long-term institutional knowledge and continued engineering curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.88, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.88 at New York Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (60)
docker-compose10
docker-image9
docker9
golang9
orchestration8
go8
cytoscapejs8
container8
approximate7
data-files7
single-page7
theory7
server-side7
ceph6
gettext6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arcalex/racktk
Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
arcalex/linkgate
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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