Michael Fahmy

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ABOUT ME

Software Ruby Engineer

I am a seasoned Backend Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the industry. I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure applications for various clients. I have extensive experience designing and developing complex systems, improving performance, and fixing security vulnerabilities. My technical skills encompass RESTful APIs, HTTP async API, database management, and analytics.

I have worked for companies such as Accredible, VeryCreatives, and UALA, where I have demonstrated my ability to work remotely and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. My experience ranges from working on marketing tools, online therapy platforms, and events platforms to professional networks and learning management systems.

I am highly adaptable and can quickly learn new technologies and programming languages. I have a deep understanding of Rails and React and have implemented integrations with multiple APIs such as Stripe, Braintree, GlobalWebIndex, Segment, and Tokbox.

Overall, I am a dedicated, proactive, and result-driven software engineer passionate about delivering outstanding software solutions and continuously improving my skills and knowledge.

Arabic, English

Mountain Time (US & Canada) (-06:00)

Joined March 2020

EXPERTISE

Ruby on Rails

8 years experience

4 years of solid experience building and maintaining web apps in Ruby on Rails, and React, building robust and complex architectures for ...

4 years of solid experience building and maintaining web apps in Ruby on Rails, and React, building robust and complex architectures for highly scalable websites and RESTful APIs.

RESTful API Devise Webpack API MySQL PostgreSQL Bootstrap Stripe RSpec Testing

SQL

8 years experience

Designed complex queries for analysis and statistics in SQL.

MySQL PostgreSQL

React

3 years experience

Es6 HTML/CSS BEM

Es6 HTML/CSS BEM Redux Webpack JavaScript

8 years experience

6 years experience

6 years experience

4 years experience

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

cloudsim-task-scheduling

Java

PSO-Task-scheduler

Implementing PSO using JSwarm library and CloudSim Simulator.

Java

Stack Overflow

23 Reputation

EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Backend Engineer

Accredible

2021-08-01-Present

Scaled the issuers' dashboard to efficiently handle over 50 million records using OpenSearch, reducing page load times to un...

Scaled the issuers' dashboard to efficiently handle over 50 million records using OpenSearch, reducing page load times to under 3 seconds, and ensuring accessibility for large clients.
Designed and implemented an asynchronous HTTP API to handle high-latency requests, enabling the creation and updating of millions of records seamlessly.
Integrated WebSockets for real-time progress updates on asynchronous operations, enhancing user experience and engagement.
Led the blockchain migration to Ethereum, automating Blockcerts infrastructure with Terraform & Terragrunt, while enhancing the cert-issuer service, and deploying a Dockerized application on AWS ECS.
Designed and developed an inter-service authentication mechanism for backend services to mitigate smart scraping, improving overall security.
Spearheaded the observability project, integrating Grafana Labs, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus, and automating AWS deployment pipelines for streamlined monitoring and alerting.
Successfully relaunched coursefinder.io, boosting weekly visits from 250 to over 3000, significantly increasing user engagement.
Automated multiple CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for continuous end-to-end testing, tagging, and branch synchronization, streamlining the release process for our main monolith Rails app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk and other dockerized services to ECR and ECS.
Collaborated cross-functionally with various development teams to enhance platform performance, optimize database queries, resolve critical bugs, and address security vulnerabilities, including whitehat-reported threats.
Authored numerous technical design and architecture documents, playing a key role in mentoring junior engineers, and promoting knowledge sharing and best practices.

Ruby

SQL

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

SQL

Ruby on Rails

JSON

API

PostgreSQL

RSpec

Redis

Elasticsearch

RESTful API

AWS

Backend Engineer

Uala

2019-07-01-2020-04-01

Collaborated with a professional backend team, provided dozens of API endpoints for a B2B app for venues’ management, and B2C web...

Collaborated with a professional backend team, provided dozens of API endpoints for a B2B app for venues’ management, and B2C web and mobile apps for clients and online bookings.
Implemented analytical reports for venues, staff members, and promotions using optimized queries, split in multiple endpoints, used SQL very efficiently for analytics and statistics.
Integrated Segment into the platform sending/syncing customers data and events to make it accessible to the marketing team in real-time.
Documented API endpoints using Redocly with OpenAPI specifications.

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

API

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

API

PostgreSQL

RSpec

Active admin

Back-End

Active record

RESTful API

Full Stack Engineer

VeryCreatives

2017-07-01-2019-07-01

Built multiple projects, some from scratch, some were huge long-term products.
Gained remote working experiences, collabo...

Built multiple projects, some from scratch, some were huge long-term products.
Gained remote working experiences, collaborated seamlessly with impressive small teams from around the world.
Involved in planning projects and provided creative solutions, worked in direct touch with the clients.
Check the Projects section below for more info about these projects.

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

API

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

API

Capistrano

Web Development

Es6

React

JavaScript

Webpack

Redux

PROJECTS

InvestoryView Project

Investory Onlineplattform GmbH

2018

A tool for every startup, venture capitalist or business angel, used for portfolio tracking & shareholders management - Spearheaded Inve...

A tool for every startup, venture capitalist or business angel, used for portfolio tracking & shareholders management - Spearheaded Investory and collaborated with a team of 3 developers and short-term freelancers. - Built and delivered very crucial features with a robust, and clean architecture. - Integrated multiple APIs such as Stripe, Stream, CrunchBase, MapBox, SaltEdge, S3Zipper. - Upgraded Rails version from Rails 4 to Rails 5, and refactored a huge legacy codebase. - Upgraded React version to v16, refactored, and implemented dozens of React components in ES6. - Improved performance of features and pages heavily used by thousands of users like investors dashboard by 167%, company reports by 41%, and data rooms to be 3.2x faster. - Reduced code smells using Design Patterns and Rails best practices by ~40% as measured by RubyCritic.

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Stripe

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Stripe

Es6

React

JavaScript

Redux

TalkCircleView Project

Talkcircle LLC.

2017

Online therapy platform - Took on the challenge of TalkCircle, became the sole developer on this project. - Integrated with third-party ...

Online therapy platform - Took on the challenge of TalkCircle, became the sole developer on this project. - Integrated with third-party APIs like Tokbox for audio/video calling, and Stripe as a payment gateway. - Held up planning meetings with the clients, and proposed creative solutions to achieve their objectives. - Implemented WebSockets through Rails 5 ActionCable for chatting and notification systems.

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

Redis

Es6

React

JavaScript

Redux