Well, who am I?

Alright, let’s do this one last time!

My name is AbdAllah, AbdAllah AbdElFattah. Muslim, human and Software engineer. But I guess you already know this. :)

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Trying to be a good one, but one can hope to be and just keep trying.

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Although this one kinda self evident, for some reasons it seems more important than ever to remind people that humans matter nowadays.

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Well, professionally since 2016. But I think I got “hooked” in high school. During a class, the teacher helped me creating two working application in VB back then:

An age calculator, and a simple game where we randomize a button position.

I still remember the excitement showing those simple apps to family and close friends back then.

After so many years, I’ll read a question by Mr. Michael C. Feathers in the beginning of his “Working effectively with legacy code” asking about “When was the moment when a person feels the fire and the joy of writing code?”…

Looking back, I think that was it for me. :)

Post graduation from Faculty of information and science, Ain Shams University late 2015, I started working officially as a Solutions Engineer, which was just a fancy name for working as a “swiss army knife” kinda engineer back then. :)

In my first company - Vision Valley - I worked on some projects with the public and private sectors in UAE, some IoT solutions and prototypes and finally built the company first own product letUno that later won an award in SAP innovation awards 2019 in the Next-Gen Innovator category…

After leaving, I spent sometime as Android Engineer. Worked on a cool app called CUJU as part of The D. GmbH along side with some other white label apps like BYF, The Good summit.

Afterwards, I had a quick work experience as a Software Engineer II in Amazon working as part of the Amazon Business team in Spain. That was around the pandemic time in June 2020, it was my first fully remote experience and it didn’t go well. I had to go around September same year.

Finally, I joined dubizzle Egypt - dubizzle Group (Formerly OLX Egypt - EMPG), in October 2020 as a Senior Software Engineer. Initially working on dubizzle Egypt Android app, then moved to work on dubizzle.com.eg web platform in conjunction with our sister company Sector Labs, serving OLX apps in the middle east and north Africa region including but not limited to Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, as well as Egypt and Pakistan.

Beginning mid 2022, I was requested to act as an Engineering Manger for the Engineering teams in dubizzle Egypt and Lebanon. However I continued actively contributing to the codebase on day to day basis, as much as I could. It was a successful and eye-opening experience, as I got to work closely with the commercial teams in dubizzle, and gain a deeper understanding (and honestly appreciation) to the business side of things. But I’ve always felt it was a bit early for me to transition fully into management, I wasn’t done with the engineering part of my story, not just yet. :)

So early 2024, I transitioned back to an individual contributor role, working as a full-stack engineer on Django and React while still at dubizzle. That lasted until the end of June 2024.

In August 2024, I joined c3s Software, working with one of their biggest clients - who will remain confidential :) - as a Senior Full Stack Engineer, working remotely. It’s been quite the ride so far.

The work spans React on the frontend, Java and Python on the backend, and Snowflake for data engineering. Some highlights I’m proud of:

  • Built version-aware frontend libraries and architecture that unified 5+ micro-apps and 20 dashboards under a single library system, eliminating cross-team blocking
  • Created a Snowflake ETL testing framework that cut vendor integration time by 75% (from 2+ weeks down to 2-3 days) - now used for 7+ vendor integrations with zero production impact
  • Migrated 13 Terraform repositories to a stable Snowflake provider with zero downtime across 10+ GB/day data pipelines, clearing 2 years of tech debt
  • Reduced Datadog monitoring costs by 96% ($5/day to $0.20/day) while making alerts 24x faster (2 hours vs next-day)
  • Built an authorization API with <50ms latency running at ~$0.30/month
  • Designed an event interception system for looker events to allow data drilling in the same window, enhancing the user experience

It’s a pretty broad range - frontend, backend, data engineering, infrastructure. But that’s exactly what makes it interesting; no two weeks look the same, and I get to learn something new constantly. :)

If you’re curious about the technical details or want a more structured view of my experience, feel free to check out my Resume (the short version) or my CV (the longer one with project details).

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I am a published author, I wrote a book called Insights, that got published in 2013. It was a collection of short stories, and I was around 20 years old back then. :)

Also I’m a fan of open source, and I try to contribute to it as much as I can. See more about that in my Github profile.

Last but not least, this site will be collection of my thoughts, ideas, and some of my work with some emphasis on providing content in Arabic. Not only software engineering matters, so basically expect anything along the way.

Feel free to jump in any time, and if you have any questions, comments, or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email at abdallah.a.elfatah@gmail.com.

Enjoy your stay! :)