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Ahmed Ehab

@ahmedehab

Lead Software Engineer at Hunter Douglas | ex-Upwork | ex-Ford | ex-DXC

Egypt
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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking a remote-first role where I can contribute to scalable, cloud-native platforms while promoting engineering quality across teams. I appreciate environments that support ownership, independence, and ongoing improvement. I want to build impactful systems and mentor engineers.

I​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ am a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience, and I have been involved in the creation of distributed systems, high-scale platforms, and cloud-native solutions that are production-ready for global companies like Upwork, Ford (Autonomic), DXC, and Hunter Douglas.

To name a few, my engineering skills cover Go, Java/Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, cloud architects, observability, and enterprise integrations. I have the experience to manage a team of 10 engineers, I have achieved a platform throughput of 1B+ data points per day, I have engineered microservices to provide 50K+ users with seamless services, and I have developed observability stacks that allow millions of IoT devices to communicate.

Personally, I am most comfortable and successful in positions where the skills of the engineer, architectural knowledge, and self-drive are considered most valuable. Thus, this can be found in tasks such as system design of resilient event-driven systems, scaling of services that are critical to the mission, developer experience optimization, and DevOps transformation leadership, in which I have had cross-organization impact.

Currently, I live and work in Cairo, Egypt (UTC+2), but my taxes are filed in Sharjah, UAE.

Let me know if you want to build complex platforms, modernize cloud infrastructure, or scale high-impact engineering teams. I am looking forward to connecting with ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌you.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

HD
Current

Lead Software Engineer

Hunter Douglas

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Global leader in window coverings with 20,000+ employees across more than 100 countries.
● Lead for the core sales and dealer management platform at Brite Sales, ingesting 1B+ data points per day for 50K+ power users.
● Led a 10-engineer team.
● Led major engineering efforts, including a gRPC integration test framework.
● Conducted technical interviews and onboarding.

Upwork logoUP

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years)

Upwork is the world's largest work marketplace. I worked on the Upwork Integration Platform.
● Delivered 8 enterprise integrations between Upwork and systems like Workday and SAP Ariba.
● Led 3 integrations work by owning the requirements, API analysis, architecture, and planning for successful GA.
● Built 12 Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, improving production support response time by 80%.

Ford logoFO

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 7 months)

● Customized forks of major Go-based OSS tools: Cortex Metrics, Grafana, Thanos.
● Designed more than 26 dashboards, ensuring 99.9% uptime.
● Participated in GCP migration from AWS, reducing cost by 27%.
● Kafka event-driven services done, improving event processing performance by 20%, reducing production issues by 75%.
● Drove 4 engineering initiatives, researching, breaking down tasks + KT.

SE

Senior Full-stack Engineer

SIGMA EMEA

Nov 2019 - Jun 2021 (1 year 7 months)

SIGMA EMEA is a software services and IT consultancy firm focused on the telecom sector.
● Led a 4-engineer team delivering 3 telecom projects (Java/Spring + Angular) supporting 20M+ monthly active users.
● Handled client meetings, ensuring alignment and project delivery for major telecom customers.
● Championed DevOps adoption and created 14 pipelines, increasing deployment frequency by 600%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

HU

Helwan University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Grade: 3.33

Pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, focusing on software development, algorithms, and system design.

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