Zeyad Yasser
Data Analyst
New Cairo City, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolZeyad Yasser is a data analyst with a decade of experience blending data-driven decision making and hands-on engineering, currently driving analytics and AI-enabled workflow optimization at Chemonics Egypt. Trained in Business Informatics at The German University in Cairo, he bridges technical and business perspectives to deliver practical insights that improve operational efficiency. His background includes ERP specialization and social media analytics, giving him a strong grasp of both enterprise systems and customer-facing metrics. An active contributor to open-source systems, he has applied back-end and DevOps skills to optimize the CRIU checkpoint/restore tool, notably improving socket lookup performance and network locking tests. Comfortable working across cross-functional teams, he turns complex technical challenges into measurable outcomes and often surfaces overlooked infrastructure improvements that accelerate project delivery. Based in New Cairo City, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to scale data solutions in emerging-market contexts.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Business informatics, Bachelor's degree, Business informatics at The German University in CairoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at International Schools Group (ISG)
Github Skills (17)
criu10
linux10
networking10
iptables10
nftables10
c119
c179
checkpointing8
system-design8
checkpoint8
back-end-development7
container7
automation7
automations7
test-automation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
checkpoint-restore/criu
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Checkpoint/Restore tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 33 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Zeyad primarily focused on optimizing and improving the CRIU (Checkpoint/Restore tool) codebase. Their contributions include refactoring code to use hash tables for faster socket lookups and moving the pidfd store functionality into a separate file for better organization. Further improvements involved adding the necessary components for network locking, including iptables and nftables implementations, and related testing infrastructure. The user also made improvements to the test suite by adding pre-dumping for pid reuse tests.
containerszero-downtimesuspendcheckpointcriu
ZeyadYasser/snapd
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Contributions:539 pushes, 150 branches in 2 years 2 months
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