Ahmed Elghareeb
I studied Computer Engineering and embedded systems.
Then shifted a bit and built a 10+ years career in Cloud development with Python.
Today, I’m shifting a bit more with a growing interest in Green Energy, Space tech, Cryptography/ Security & Privacy, and a care for Sustainability in Software.
💡 A research software Engineer is a generalist with a rich technical experience who works alongside researchers in different domains to advance their research with modern software tools and infrastructure.
Tools of the trade
Programming Languages: Python, Typescript, Rust (new)
Embedded Systems: C for microcontrollers, Processing for Arduino, LabView, VHDL for FPGA
AI development: LLMs, Librechat, Langchain, Copilot, Cursor, Azure OpenAI Studio
Frameworks: Django DRF, FastAPI — Vue.js, Qwik
API Specification: REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI
Backend Stack: Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis
DATABASES: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Data stack: Metabase, Snowflake, Tableau, Airflow, Apache Spark
CI/CD: Git, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, CircleCI, Gitlab CI, Google Build
DevOps: Containerization (Docker), Terraform, Serverless framework, Make
Cloud Providers: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure, Heroku, DigitalOcean
Google Cloud services: Google Build, Google Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage, GKE, GCE, SQL
AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, CloudFront, Cognito, API Gateway, Route53, etc.
Observability: DataDog, Elastic, sentry, RollBar, different APM solutions
Project Management Frameworks: Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Experience
Research Software Engineer
Center for digital trust @ EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland – (April 2023 - Current)
topics: Cryptography - E-ID - LLMs - Research papers - research teams - W3C
Working on various projects in Security and Privacy, ranging from Machine Learning, to BlockChain to Self-Sovereign Identities.
Focusing on Security, and Cryptographic applications, specifically E-ID. I also working on researching the standards and system architectures for such a system. This includes decentralization, and massive scale deployment. (Think replacing IDs and passports).
I also gained exposure to the research environment, working with researchers, reading papers, and build applications, and prototypes based on them.
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer [Part-time Consulting role]
Equality AI, Remote – (February 2023 - July 2024)
topics: MLOps - LLMs (Langchain) - Azure AI studio - Django - Vue Js - Docker - Azure - Managed K8s
Leading a technical team of 4 people to build a machine leading dashboard with Jupyter lab-based notebooks feature in the browser.
We also built an LLM-based ChatBot specialized in Fairness in ML.
The team had limited resources, so I contributed a lot to
- backend (django)
- frontend (Vue.js)
- completely rebooted DevOps (Azure managed K8s & PAAS).
Sabbatical
Europe, Egypt – (November 2022 - March 2023)
Tinkering
with latest technologies, and adjusting my career goals, while at the same time traveling the world.
Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack Developer)
Kiwi, Lausanne, Switzerland – (Feb 2021 - October 2022)
topics: Fintech - AWS - Python/Django - Docker - API Design - Scalable - Celery - Metabase - Airflow
- Training junior developers, guiding Mid-levels, and leading other developers on project-basis.
- Setting best practices, and working on design documents.
- Full-stack engineer in the team responsible for internal users dashboard
- Started the migration from django templates to VueJS.
- System design: Moved from spaghetti monolith to modular monolith, and planned migration to services
- Led a project to start operating in Colombia
- Redesigned the whole micro-loan product into a more robust and extensible system
- Worked in an international environment with two main offices in Mexico city, and Lausanne, Switzerland.
Senior Software Engineer
BackMarket, Paris, France – (Jan 2019 - Feb 2021)
topics: E-commerce - AWS - Python/Django - Docker - K8s - API Design & standards - Airflow - MySQL - Celery
- Focused on the back-office for internal staff and merchants.
- Direct interactions with internal and external customers.
- Integrations with many 3rd party services like Salesforce.
- Improved and maintained the product catalog
- Having a massive catalog of products in many languages, there was constant improvements in performance, and scalability.
- Country management: streamline opening new countries with small friction (This evolved in the next job as well)
Senior Django Web Developer
STC Solutions, Cairo, Egypt – (Oct 2017 - August 2018)
topics: Cloud Provider - Python/Django - PostgreSQL - Docker - Celery - Services O. A. - RabbitMQ
- STCs is a cloud provider in the middle-east. My job was to build and maintain the
marketplace for their services, and manage the highly complex billing system.
- Working in a large organization of 800 people across different physical locations, and departments.
Django Lead developer
cubeEgypt, Mansoura, Egypt – (Aug 2014 - Oct 2017)
topics: python, django, frontend, EduTech
Started my professional career at Cube, but only after two years, I was leading a team of developers.
Although a bit too early, I was able to gain a lot from that experience to be a more efficient engineer later on.
I worked on a myriad of projects from exotic mobile apps to automatic assessment education systems to E-commerce.
Languages
English 🇬🇧
Native
Arabic 🇪🇬
Native
French 🇨🇭
B1
Japanese 🇯🇵
Elementary A1
Recent Courses (2024/25)
- Cryptography @ Stanford Online
- Sustainability Robotics @ EPFL Campus
- AI safety and Ethics @ the center for AI safety online
Education
Climate Tech Fellowship
topics: Climate Tech & Climate efforts - Incorporating sustainability into my workflow
This program investigated many domains with a lens focusing on the climate aspects.
The most interesting fields for me were the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors.
The program included huge research materials that I'm still going through today.
Follow up after this program:
- I'm working with the ClimateRoboticsNetworks non-profit
- I started a working group on Sustainable IT in my research institution (sponsored by the Research Software Engineering community @ EPFL)
→ I Gave two talk on “Environmental Impact of AI supply chain” at EPFL
MicroMasters on Statistics and Data Science
A series of courses provided by MIT online through the edx.org platform
on topics like Machine learning and statistical analysis.
MITx on EdX
2019 - 2023
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
5-year bachelor degree.
Studied Systems Engineering, Control Systems, Software Engineering.
Along with Elective courses on FPGA, and Microcontrollers.
Mansoura University
2011 - 2016
Non-Profits and other activities
Climate Robotics Network (C.R.N.)
Recent active member of the C.R.N. non-profit, where we care about Climate, and robotics, and how their integration can save the world!
R.S.E. Sustainable IT workgroup
Within EPFL, started a working group of people interested in sustainability within IT. This group is part of the Research Software engineers community at EPFL.