Full-stack software engineer
A full-stack engineer, open source contributor, and three-time ACPC finalist who also happens to be a chess enthusiast and football player. This is a curated look at the work, the contests, and the communities that shaped that journey.
Each entry connects a decision to an outcome: a project, a role, a contest, or a mentoring moment that shaped how I think and build.
Cairo, Egypt
At Taager, I designed microservices communicating via Apache Pulsar, worked with Node.js and Spring Boot Kotlin across both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, applied Clean Architecture / DDD / CQRS, achieved ~80% test coverage with Testcontainers and MockK, leveraged feature flags for gradual rollout and A/B experimentation, and gained exposure to ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and Datadog.
NASA Space Apps in Ismailia
With team Pyroguardians, the challenge was turning a fast idea into something presentable and credible. Third place and a global nomination were not just results. They were proof that the team could narrow the idea and build under real time pressure.
IEEE
IEEEXtreme was a different kind of test: long hours, many problems, and constant decisions between speed and accuracy. Reaching the top 15 in Egypt out of 198 teams made the experience a clear marker of technical discipline.
Cairo, Egypt
At SciCave, I worked on real web applications where a screen working locally was only the beginning. The role connected React, Next.js, Cypress, Docker, and AWS with requirements work, UI decisions, testing, and deployment.
ACPC Competition
Qualifying for the ACPC finals three times made competitive programming more than a side activity. It became long-form training in reading under pressure, choosing the right algorithm, and explaining an idea to a team quickly and clearly.
ICPC Community at Zagazig University · Mar 2022 – Aug 2024
This chapter was about turning experience into leverage for other people. In the ICPC Community at Zagazig University, the work was not just explaining algorithms. It was helping teams build contest instincts, writing problems, and making weekly practice feel like a repeatable system.
ZagEng Team
At ZagEng, automation became a way to remove repeated work, not just a technical experiment. I led the IT committee in building 13+ Telegram bots and a Django dashboard, then connected them with Make.com flows to serve students faster.
Only the two newest posts live here, so the homepage stays a story rather than an archive.
March 15, 2024
How I started competitive programming, the challenges I faced, and becoming an ACPC finalist.
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The story behind building Arabi.js, a tool that allows writing JavaScript using Arabic keywords.
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