Summary
Mahmoud Shawara is a Senior Software Engineer in Cairo with 10 years of backend experience who pairs competitive programming rigor with practical systems engineering. He has owned feature design and production delivery across startups and scale-ups, from stabilizing ClickHouse deployments to instrumenting distributed tracing at Careem and revamping Swvl’s routing and autoscaling pipelines. His work spans end-to-end backend responsibilities — payment integrations, chat services, API design, Dockerization and database modeling — turning algorithmic thinking into robust, observable services. With a Computer Science degree and a track record of fixing hard operational problems, he reliably ships scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4 at Faculty of Computers and Information