Youssef Sholqamy
Co-Founder, CTO at Telda
Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussef Sholqamy is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Telda, a fintech startup focused on modern banking alternatives for digital natives. He previously built production systems at Uber and contributed to high-growth ventures across Egypt and internationally, blending startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering. Comfortable across the stack, Youssef has a proven track record of shipping scalable products from early prototyping to live customer-facing platforms. His mentoring experience at CareerFoundry and early roles in diverse teams reflect a knack for translating customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions. Based in Cairo and educated at The German University in Cairo, he combines local market insight with global engineering practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs entrepreneurial drive with hands-on technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at The German University in Cairo
English, German, French, Arabic
Github Skills (61)
pokemongo10
java9
baking9
discord-bot9
telegram9
script9
alamofireimage9
docker8
elasticsearch8
sequelize-cli8
search-engine8
discord8
perfect7
ioc-container7
slack7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
salmamali/Ignite
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
ysholqamy/email_juggler
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
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