Islam Askar

Islam Askar

Lead Software Engineer

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Hello. I am a software engineer.an instructor.an entrepreneur.a freelancer.a geek.a travel lover.

Basically, I am an experienced Software Engineer with more than 13 years of experience building web applications using cutting-edge technology.  I have good knowledge and experience with both LAMP/R and MEAN stacks.

I code, read, design, and play in my spare time. I also tend to keep my tablet full of apps, photos, to-do lists, and artifacts of random places I’ve traveled.

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Islam Salah Askar

Islam Salah Askar

islam.askar@gmail.com

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WORK HISTORY

2019

Lead Software Engineer

creditshelf AG
  • Integrating the company platform with a popular CRM system (dual-sync).
  •  Integrating the company platform with the fronting bank to handle all the payments.
  • Rearchitecting the entire system into a Modular Monolith with a REST API layer and a separate SPA.
  • Designing the AuthN/Authz flow by adding Identity Management Service.
  • Integrating the API Gateway with the IdM service and the backend services.
  • Migrating the system to Kubernetes and incorporating GitOps tools for seamless application infrastructure deployment.
  • Designing and implementing the release pipeline using Docker, K8s, and AWS as the infrastructure provider.
  •  Automating the release notes by posting the changes automatically to Slack for stakeholders and creating GitHub releases.
  • Integration of ELK as a log collection, tracing, and monitoring system.
  • Integrating Cypress for e2e testing and leading the addition of e2e tests using Cucumber with Gehriken syntax.
  • Integrating React to run on top of Rails to migrate the views to ReactJs as a transitional state.
  • Integrating Static Code Analysis tools into the release pipeline.
  • Maintaining the system documentation.
  • Contributing effectively to the whole company’s architecture design.
  • Onboarding new team members and guiding them through the system.
2018

Co-Founder & CTO

Comprando.io
  • Defining the technology stack.
  • Putting the tech strategy for the PoC.
  • Developing a complex web e-commerce application.
  • Developing mobile clients (Android and iOS).
  • Automating the release pipeline using GCP Kubernetes as a backend
2017

Senior Full Stack Developer

TN VISA Expert.
  • Developing Web Applications using WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter, and Django.
  • Integrating a payment gateway.
  • Automating the development life cycle.
2014

Head of Open Source Department

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (ITI)
  • Managing and leading a group of six in the department.
  • Participate in the selection of scholarship candidates offered by the institute.
  • Participate in the selection of new staff.
  • Conducting Lectures, Labs & Preparing Course Materials.
  • Developing Institute Applications (ERP System, Students Attendance system, Department Portal)
2012

Teaching Assistant – Open Source Department

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (ITI)
  • Conducting Lectures, Labs & Preparing Course Materials.
  • Developing Web apps.
  • Managing Students Groups.
  • Participating/organizing ITI Events.
2011

Web Developer

GCSSD
  • Developing Broadcast & News websites.
  • Contributing to a large CMS as a product for the company.
  • Providing web support.

EDUCATION HISTORY

2011

Diploma, Software Engineering

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (ITI)

I studied Software engineering at Information Technology Institute

2008

Bachelor of Science

ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY

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SERVER SIDE TECHNOLOGIES

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

PHP

Zend Framework

Laravel

perl

Catalyst

Python

Django

NodeJS

ExpressJS

CLIENT SIDE TECHNOLOGIES

HTML5 & CSS3

ajax

XML

JavaScript

jQuery

Bootstrap

Reactjs

Databases

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

CouchDB

DevOps & SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION

RHEL/CentOS

Ubuntu

Shell Scripting

Git

CircleCI

Chef

SVN

AWS

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Crossplane

Google Cloud Platform

Apache WebServer

nginx

SOFT SKILLS

Team Building

Problem Solving

Presentation Skills

Leadership & Motivation

Communication Skills

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