Ahmed Mamdouh
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer · Cairo, Egypt · Remote, overlapping US and EU hours
Summary
Ahmed Mamdouh is a senior full-stack & AI engineer in Cairo, Egypt with 10+ years shipping production systems in TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React and Next.js — real-time platforms at 100K+ concurrent connections, fintech transaction systems, and production AI agents, MCP servers and RAG pipelines.
Experience
IT solutions provider: cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and IPTV device management for enterprise clients.
- Shipped a production AI agent on the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs with tool use, memory and guardrails
- Designed an MCP server that gives LLM clients secure tools into the database, telemetry and internal services
- Built RAG pipelines on AWS with Qdrant and eval harnesses; ran fine-tuning on SageMaker and Bedrock
- Designed ALTO's real-time device management on NestJS, Socket.io and MongoDB for 100,000+ concurrent devices
- Split a monolith into NestJS services on Docker and Kubernetes, cutting p95 latency by ~40%
- Led 7+ engineers across Node.js, NestJS and Angular; owned CI/CD on Jenkins and AWS EKS
Africa's largest on-demand home services platform (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt as FilKhedma).
- Built and scaled Node.js and NestJS services serving 100k+ active customers
- Shipped mobile-first booking flows in Angular and Vue.js
- Raised booking-flow throughput and cut API tail latency with query tuning, caching and async workflows
Fintech and e-commerce products: Zerocash (e-wallet), Rojetah (healthcare), Dealmart (e-commerce), Trjim.
- Architected the Zerocash e-wallet transaction system with audit trails and reconciliation
- Shipped versioned REST APIs in Node.js and Laravel, backed by contract tests
- Made critical endpoints ~45% faster with Redis caching, N+1 cleanup and indexed queries
- Led 7+ engineers in Scrum
Website monitoring SaaS with 2.1M+ users.
- Built high-throughput Node.js and NestJS services running millions of website checks a day
- Designed schema-first GraphQL APIs that cut client network overhead by ~35%
- Queue-based alerting pipeline with retry, deduplication and SLA tracking on AWS ECS and Lambda
School Management System and Learning Management System.
- Built the LMS end to end (Vue.js frontend, REST APIs) for thousands of students and teachers
- Multi-tenancy across schools with Socket.io chat and notifications
Skills
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript (ES2022+), Python, SQL
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Angular, Redux, Tailwind CSS
- Backend
- Node.js, NestJS, Express, GraphQL (Apollo), REST, Socket.io, Microservices, Event-driven architecture
- AI / LLM
- Anthropic API (Claude), OpenAI API, LangChain agents, MCP servers, RAG, Embeddings, Fine-tuning, Tool use, Evals, Prompt engineering
- Fintech & payments
- E-wallet transaction systems, Audit trails, Reconciliation, Stripe, PayPal, Paymob, Paytabs, OAuth 2.0, RBAC
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Prisma, Qdrant, pgvector, Pinecone
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, SageMaker, Bedrock), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Testing
- Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cypress, Contract & integration testing
Notable projects
- ALTO device platform: Real-time device management for an IPTV platform: NestJS, Socket.io and MongoDB holding 100,000+ concurrent device connections.
- ALTO AI agent + MCP: A production AI agent on the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs with tool use, memory and guardrails — plus an MCP server that gives LLMs safe access to internal systems.
- Zerocash: E-wallet transaction system clearing thousands of payments a day, with audit trails and reconciliation.
- SweepSouth: Africa's largest on-demand home-services platform: NestJS services and booking flows for 100k+ active customers.
- UptimeRobot: Website monitoring for 2.1M+ users: Node.js services running millions of checks a day and a schema-first GraphQL API.
- Mall of Arabia: Website for Egypt's largest mall.
Education & languages
Akhbar El Youm Academy, B.Sc. Computer Science, 2014 — 2018 · Arabic (native), English (professional working proficiency)