Youssuf Elkalay
Staff Software Engineer at Prove
Mission Viejo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussuf Elkalay is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 13 years of experience designing and shipping n-tier systems, currently advancing platform-level work at Prove while running his own engineering consultancy, 2038 Labs. He combines deep Java expertise, performance engineering and CI/CD automation with hands-on backend and test automation contributions—evidenced by RFC-compliant fixes and test refactors in the well-known GreenMail project. Comfortable from systems engineering to developer productivity, he has repeatedly built robust delivery pipelines and platform features across enterprises like ServiceNow and ID Analytics. With a Master’s in Software Engineering and a BA in Cognitive Science, he blends formal engineering rigor with user-centered thinking to tackle complex, scalable problems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at DePaul University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (11)
javas10
smtpd10
junit10
smtp10
smtps10
java10
testing10
imap9
pop39
integration-testing9
mock-server8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
greenmail-mail-test/greenmail
Nov 2014 - Dec 2020
Official master for the Greenmail project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:41 commits, 15 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Youssuf primarily contributed to the backend logic and testing aspects of the Greenmail project. They fixed a bug in the `MailCommand` class, modifying it to adhere to RFC5321 specifications. The user also added and refactored unit tests for the SMTP server, switching from raw Java sockets to JavaMail and using Hamcrest assertions for better readability. Furthermore, they refactored and implemented methods for purging email from mailboxes.
smtppop3emailmastergreenmail
buildscientist/greenmail
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:97 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
emailmastergreenmail
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