About

Ahmed Fouad is a skilled and innovative software engineer with a passion for programming and IT/networking. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport in 2017. Since then, he has been actively involved in various educational courses on Treehouse and Udemy, as well as working on his own projects. Ahmed is a lifelong learner who learns best by working on a project and is always looking for a new challenge. Currently, Ahmed works as a Software Engineer at Trianglz LLC, where he has made significant contributions to the development of their leading product, 3elagi. His contributions include Dockerizing the 3elagi application, implementing background jobs into application orders, sales, and other APIs with complex logic, migrating the used NoSQL database into MongoDB Atlas online global cloud database, and increasing the speed and performance of some of their API endpoints. Ahmed also performed performance testing for APIs to find the maximum number of requests for specific APIs per second by writing Python scripts using the Locust.io library. Additionally, Ahmed worked on Tabe3, an application used by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj and Umrah for tracking Hajj trips and delivering food to groups during different stages of Hajj. He designed the project models for the relational database, implemented core features of the app, and changed static front-end pages of the app Admin Dashboard into dynamic ones using ERB. Prior to his current role, Ahmed worked as a Software Engineer at Lynks.com (YC W'16), where he designed and implemented new features that affected multiple microservices, integrated with Stripe payments gateway API to provide online payment to customers, and participated in agile software development. He also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Bespark, where he designed and implemented a Rails application for exporting all Shopify shop orders and customers into a CSV and learned React to implement an app called Fish store for a trendy seafood market. Ahmed's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, a Full Stack Development certification from Treehouse, and additional courses on Udemy and Free Code Camp. His tech stack includes expertise in software engineering, Ruby, web development, testing, NoSQL, MongoDB, frontend development, microservices, and Python. Overall, Ahmed has 4.45 years of relevant experience in the software engineering field.