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Islam Gad

@islamgad

Engineering leader at Digital Zone who stabilized a platform serving 5M users through a 25x Black Friday traffic surge.

Egypt
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At Digital Zone, I rebuilt a struggling platform team and designed an AI-assisted incident triage ecosystem across Claude, Grafana, Linear, and Slack. During Black Friday, I led the response when traffic reached roughly 25 times expected levels, stabilizing the platform with live rate-limiting and coordinated incident leadership.

At Edenred, I challenged a broad subscription concept and proposed validating a customizable model with two benefits first. The resulting offering became the company's #1 revenue-generating product, overtaking Money Transfer.

At Talabat, I ran Post-Order Experience around reducing avoidable customer contacts while preserving trust. Self-service journeys for missing items and rule-based refunds resolved about 80% of genuine eligible cases without agent intervention.

At Aqarmap, I developed future engineering leaders and helped rethink real-estate search relevance by adding demand signals to Elasticsearch scoring. I also led engineering for Aqarmap Expo and guided the move toward microservices and API-first architecture with pragmatic migration trade-offs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

TA

Engineering Manager – Post-Order Experience

Talabat

Mar 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Ran Post-Order Experience against customer contact rate as a business North Star, building self-service journeys that resolved ~80% of eligible cases without agent intervention.

CA

Engineering Manager

Crowd Analyzer

Aug 2021 - Mar 2022 (7 months)

Managed a cross-functional activation squad, partnered with Product on quarterly objectives, improved Agile and cross-team communication, and hired to grow the team.

AQ

Engineering Manager

Aqarmap

Oct 2016 - Aug 2021 (4 years 10 months)

Built a repeatable turnaround pattern across four squads, developing 3+ Senior Engineers into Engineering Managers. Led engineering for Aqarmap Expo and drove the move toward microservices and API-first architecture.

SF

Backend Engineer

Software Agencies / Freelance

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Delivered backend engineering across multiple agency and freelance engagements.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

TA

Thebes Academy

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2009 - 2013

Grade: 3.22 (B+)

Activities and societies: 3rd Place Ranking

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a GPA of 3.22 (B+) and ranked 3rd in the class.

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