Hi, I’m Ahmed Ehab, a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building Go, Java, and frontend systems, with a passion for distributed systems, observability, and cloud-native platforms. I have led teams of up to 10 engineers delivering high-profile platforms handling 1B+ events daily and serving millions of users, partnering with global organizations to drive engineering excellence. I thrive on designing robust microservices, enterprise integrations, and observability stacks, mentoring engineers, and shaping delivery processes. I enjoy technical interviews, onboarding teammates, and delivering high-quality software that scales across enterprise ecosystems.

Ahmed Ehab

Hi, I’m Ahmed Ehab, a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building Go, Java, and frontend systems, with a passion for distributed systems, observability, and cloud-native platforms. I have led teams of up to 10 engineers delivering high-profile platforms handling 1B+ events daily and serving millions of users, partnering with global organizations to drive engineering excellence. I thrive on designing robust microservices, enterprise integrations, and observability stacks, mentoring engineers, and shaping delivery processes. I enjoy technical interviews, onboarding teammates, and delivering high-quality software that scales across enterprise ecosystems.

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Hi, I’m Ahmed Ehab, a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building Go, Java, and frontend systems, with a passion for distributed systems, observability, and cloud-native platforms. I have led teams of up to 10 engineers delivering high-profile platforms handling 1B+ events daily and serving millions of users, partnering with global organizations to drive engineering excellence.

I thrive on designing robust microservices, enterprise integrations, and observability stacks, mentoring engineers, and shaping delivery processes. I enjoy technical interviews, onboarding teammates, and delivering high-quality software that scales across enterprise ecosystems.

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Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer at Hunter Douglas
January 1, 2025 - Present
Leading a 10-engineer team in the core sales and dealer management platform, ingesting 1B+ data points per day for 50K+ power users. Initiated engineering efforts including a gRPC integration test framework, Go/Kafka libraries, and productivity improvements. Conducted technical interviews and onboarded 7 engineers.
Senior Software Engineer at Upwork
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Delivered 8 enterprise integrations between Upwork and systems like Workday, Greenhouse, and SAP Ariba. Headed 3 integrations from requirements to GA. Built 12 Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, improving production support response time by 80%.
Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company (Autonomic)
June 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Contributed to and customized forks of major Go-based OSS tools: Cortex Metrics, Grafana, Thanos. Designed more than 26 dashboards, ensuring 99.9% uptime for critical mobility services. Participated in GCP migration from AWS, reducing cost by 27%. Kafka event-driven Insight services developed using Java/Kotlin improved event processing performance by 20% and reduced production issues by 75%. Drove 4 engineering initiatives on researching and breaking down business features and KT.
Senior Full-stack Engineer at SIGMA EMEA
November 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Led a 4-engineer team delivering 3 telecom projects (Java/Spring + Angular) supporting 20M+ monthly active users. Handled client meetings to ensure alignment and delivery. Championed DevOps adoption and created 14 Jenkins pipelines, increasing deployment frequency by 600%.
Software Engineer at DXC
March 1, 2018 - November 1, 2019
8 microservices and 14+ features for Belgian government justice system and an EU fuel retailers SaaS platform. Worked across Java, Spring, Angular, Kubernetes, and Docker to deliver reliable end-to-end services.
Junior Software Engineer at Marased Technology
July 1, 2017 - March 1, 2018
Main work on Maneh 2.0, a donation management system. Developed 7 modules using Java, Spring, and JSF.

Education

BSc. in Computer Science at Helwan University
September 1, 2013 - July 1, 2017

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Government, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics