About

Ahmed Yakout is a highly skilled Software Engineer currently working at Google as a Site Reliability Engineer. With 3.87 years of relevant experience, Ahmed is a specialist in Distributed Systems, Cloud Systems, Databases, Scalability, Performance Optimization, Operating Systems, and all other things Systems and Backend. He is passionate about developing and maintaining data pipelines and backends that receive millions of requests per minute originating from over 1B+ devices located all around the world. In his previous role as a Backend Engineer at Instabug, Ahmed worked on making their services cloud agnostic and on-prem ready. He was also responsible for patching security vulnerabilities reported on HackerOne, migrating from ElasticSearch to ClickHouse for APM analytics, re-writing some Rails workers in Golang, and improving systems scalability and performance. He was instrumental in translating complex requirements into scalable, extensible implementations with an eye toward maximizing reuse. Ahmed also worked on improving the development platform and automating the releases pipelines using Argo Workflows. He maintained and released to single tenants clusters, and was on-call for the things they owned and ran. He also conducted R&D activities. Ahmed's education background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt. He also worked as a Teaching Assistant for the programming I course, for first-year students while in college. Ahmed's tech stack includes SRE, Software Engineer, Backend, product manager, Elastic Search, Ruby, and Golang. He is open to discussing interesting topics and networking with anyone who is curious to know more about him.