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mohamed-akef/README.md

Hi, I'm Mohamed Akef ๐Ÿ‘‹

Senior Engineering Manager

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๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป About me

I'm a Senior Engineering Manager. I build and scale engineering organizations from zero โ€” hiring, career ladders and an async, remote-first culture โ€” while staying hands-on with architecture: microservices, event-driven systems and platform engineering.

  • ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Hands-on with Go and distributed, event-driven systems.
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Focused on platform engineering & developer experience โ€” reliability, delivery standards and shorter feedback loops.
  • ๐ŸŒ 15 years in software ยท 7+ leading distributed, multi-timezone teams โ€” WUZZUF, Jumia, Sharwa, Taager.
  • ๐Ÿงญ Scaled engineering orgs from seed to 10+ engineers; delivered 4ร— faster APIs under peak load and ~35% less operational toil through automation & re-architecture.
  • โš–๏ธ A self-taught engineer who began in law โ€” range and first-principles thinking on hard problems.
  • ๐ŸŽฎ Based in Cairo, Egypt (GMT+2). Off the clock: gamer & cars enthusiast.

๐Ÿงฐ Tech I work with

Languages & Frameworks

Go PHP Node.js TypeScript Laravel Symfony NestJS

Cloud & Platform

AWS Google Cloud Docker GitHub Actions GitLab CI Linux

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis MongoDB Apache Kafka RabbitMQ

Architecture & Practices

Microservices ยท Event-Driven ยท Domain-Driven Design ยท SOA ยท REST APIs ยท Platform Engineering ยท Observability & SLOs


๐Ÿš€ Featured projects

Project What it is
agentic-delegator ย Go SaaS orchestrator that runs Claude Code on sandboxed Docker runners and opens PRs.
headless-sqs ย TypeScript Headless AWS SQS package that auto-provisions queues from a simple config.
The-Magic-DTO ย PHP Library that gives DTOs setter/getter functionality without the boilerplate.

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  1. headless-sqs headless-sqs Public

    Headless AWS SQS package that auto-provisions queues from a simple config.

    TypeScript 2

  2. The-Magic-DTO The-Magic-DTO Public

    Library provides setters and getters functionality without implementing them

    PHP 3

  3. ecommerce-order-creation ecommerce-order-creation Public

    PHP 2