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Mina Samir User

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Engineering Manager at Sahl, leading an AWS EKS platform roadmap and cutting cloud and tooling spend by 20+%.

Egypt

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At Sahl, I own the platform roadmap for a regulated payments environment on AWS EKS. I led a Terraform strategy that cut environment provisioning from days to hours and eliminated configuration drift.

I also moved observability to Datadog and re-architected GitLab CI with autoscaling runners on EKS, reducing pipeline queue time by 70%. I delivered secure network connectivity to Egyptian payment providers and introduced a self-hosted coding assistant.

At Crowd Analyzer, I led a 14-engineer team through a microservices redesign and AWS-to-GCP migration, increasing uptime to 99.9%+ and lowering cloud spend by 52%. Earlier, I founded ElRoshetta, building its Java/Spring backend and delivering Android, iOS, and web products that reached 100K+ downloads.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Current

Sahl

Jan 2026 - Present (10 months)

Owns the platform roadmap for a regulated payments environment on AWS EKS, leading infrastructure, observability, IaC, networking, identity, and the Orders service. Defined and executed Terraform IaC strategy, ran cloud cost optimization, and led migration of observability to Datadog.

Amazon EKS Terraform Datadog Incident.Io GitLab CI CD .NET Observability FinOps WAF IPsec MPLS LLM Qwen2.5 Coder VLLM LiteLLM

Engineering Manager

Crowd Analyzer

Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 (2 years)

Led a cross-functional team of 14 engineers, overseeing hiring, onboarding, and career development. Directed a full system redesign and migration to microservices, and led the AWS to GCP migration, reducing cloud spend by 52%.

Microservices AWS GCP Docker GitHub Actions CI CD Team Leadership Hiring Mentorship

Technical Lead

RunProf LLC

Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Led a team of 6 engineers delivering client platforms across ride-sharing, F&B, and e-commerce. Owned client engagement and requirements gathering, translating business needs into technical roadmaps.

NestJS PostgreSQL AWS WebSockets GraphQL Team Leadership Client Engagement Technical Roadmapping

Senior Software Engineer

Misr Life Insurance

Mar 2020 - Feb 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Led the digital transformation of sales and customer management, designing and delivering a web CRM for insurance agents plus real-time KPI dashboards. Drove adoption across a 16-person sales organization.

CRM KPI Dashboards Digital Transformation Sales Customer Management

Founder & Technical Lead

ElRoshetta

Jul 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 6 months)

Founded a health-tech startup connecting patients and pharmacies; built the Java/Spring backend and managed AWS infrastructure, architecture, and security. Led end-to-end delivery of Android, iOS, and web products to 100K+ downloads.

Java Spring Framework AWS Android iOS Web Startups Product Development

Software Engineer

POET LLC

Jul 2016 - Jun 2017 (11 months)

Developed backend features and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Framework, ensuring clean architecture and maintainability. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver client solutions on time.

Java Spring Framework REST APIs Clean Architecture Unit Testing Integration Testing

Software Engineer

Webalo

Jun 2015 - May 2016 (11 months)

Contributed to enterprise backend systems within a large monolithic Java codebase for industrial clients. Focused on refactoring, debugging, and performance tuning to improve reliability and reduce downtime.

Java Monolithic Architecture Refactoring Debugging Performance Optimization

Research Assistant Intern

Microsoft Research Lab (ATLC)

Jul 2014 - Sep 2014 (2 months)

Applied NLP techniques to detect trending events on Twitter. Built a model to analyze tweet clusters and extract main event characteristics.

NLP Twitter Event Detection Clustering Data Analysis

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Alexandria University

Bachelor of Science, Computer and Systems Engineering

2009 - 2015

Grade: 3.3/4.0

Activities and societies: Ranked 4th in graduating class; Top 15% worldwide in LeetCode contests; Falak Startup Accelerator selection; 5th place, Egypt Startups Cup.

B.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering, with a GPA of 3.3/4.0 and ranked 4th in the graduating class.