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Mohamed Zaki

Software Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Experience

Travel Advisor

Teleperformance · Fulltime| Sep 2018 - Jun 2020 Onsite

  • Used GDS systems such as: Sabre, Amadeus to issue flight ticks, manage flight reservations, and process airline waivers to resolve schedule changes and unanticipated flight disruptions.
  • Communicated with customers from North America. Helped with resolving complaints related to delays in flight ticketing and flight schedules.
  • Resolved billing issues and discrepancies by auditing flight ticketing on GDS, and compiled airline memos to produce reports to management and other stackholders.

Software Engineer

Vodafone · Internship | Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 · 6 mos Remote

  • Worked alongside internal business partners to compile requirements, build prototypes, and convert it to logical and well-performing SaaS application leveraging microservices architecture.
  • Helped coordinate full lifecycle of software development, including modeling, design, and long-term software maintenance.
  • Enrolled in workshops and collaborated with teams in Agile settings in line with best practices and standards.
  • Derived creative and comprehensive solutions to complex challenges both in technical requirements derived from user feedback and business regulation and limitation.

Volunteer Software Engineer

Electronic Research Institute · Internship | May 2023 - Oct 2023 · 6 mos Hybrid · Cairo, Egypt

  • Collaborated in Agile team designing solutions and implementing features for applications in a - high-profile work environment.
  • Developed prototypes and simulations using C++, and ROS for robotics applications.
  • Designed internal tools for ease of automated testing and major performance enhancement.

Freelance Software Developer

Jun 2023 - Present · 7 mos Remote

  • Collaborated with clients and compiled their requirements and business needs to develop applications that enhanced UI/UX.
  • Provided on-site consultation and collaboration to develop applications that assisted clients in reaching their goals.
  • Helped in development in prototypes and proof of concept software projects with full technical specification demonstrating the system design and software pattern used.

Accolades and Skills

  • Javascript Algorithms and Data Structures (freeCodeCamp Certification)
  • Responsive Web Design (freeCodeCamp Certification)
  • CSS, Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS
  • Back-end Development (Coursera / Meta Certification)
  • Backend with Springboot (Java), Express (NodeJS), Django (Python), SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
  • Front-end Development (Coursera / Meta Certification)
  • Frontend with React, Angular, and vanilla JS.
  • Embedded Systems Summer Training (ITI Certification)
  • Deep Learning and NLP (LinkedIn Certification)
  • C/ C++ Programming (LinkedIn Certification)
  • Robotics Specialization (Coursera Certification)
  • Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning (Udemy Certifications)
  • Product Vision: ability to collaborate with a balanced team and end users to translate complex features - requests to feasible deliverables and maintain a healthy user feedback loop.
  • Consultation: staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and solutions to choose the right tool or patterns or design an architecture to most appropriately fit the scenario.
  • Used real-time data feeds systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
  • Used Version Management systems such as Git/GitHub.
  • Designed desktop applications with QT/QML.

Projects

  • 3D Renderer with custom math libraryusing C++, OpenGL, GLFW
  • Sprite Renderer, and Breakout Game using C++, OpenGL, GLFW
  • Raytracing engine on CPU in C++ for educational purposes
  • Hack: An object oriented programming language developed from scratch in C++, with a compiler, assembler, and a virtual machine translator.
  • XSTL: A Custom implementation of the Standard Template Library, meant to be portable, lightwight, with source code that is easy to read and maintain.
  • Object Detection and Tracking System for Visually Impaired using Rasbperry-pi, features real-time object detection and tracking using TensorFlow Lite, and video streaming and image processing using OpenCV.
  • An industrial mobile manipulator robot can move autonomously in an environment through a known map using gmapping SLAM using ROS and Gazebo.
  • Real-time On-Demand Traffic Management System Simulator (ITI - Aug 2023): Designed circuit diagram and designed a state machine that describe traffic flow, recognized for best project presentation, clean code and documentation.
  • HTTP server library with template engine using C++, Qt: has a low memory requirement of approx. 2 MB, suitable for embedded applications, and supports HTTPS, cookies, file uploads, dynamic thread pool, session store and caching.
  • C++ project starter template (ERI): is modular CMake script that supports test automation, CI/CD, and test portability across different compilers, which became a DeFacto standard in our team for starting any C++ library development.