Michael Fahmy

• Collaborated asynchronously with distributed teams, maintaining 4+ hours overlap with U.S.-based leadership.
• Scaled the dashboard to support 50M+ records via OpenSearch, reducing page load times to under 3 seconds and ensuring accessibility for large clients.
• Built asynchronous HTTP APIs to handle millions of high-latency requests, integrated WebSockets for real-time progress updates, enhancing user experience and engagement.
• Led the blockchain migration to Ethereum, dockerized the service, instrumented it for observability, provisioned ECS infrastructure with Terraform & Terragrunt, and automated deployments via GitHub Actions.
• Drove the observability overhaul across the monolith and supporting services, integrated Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry. Reduced monthly costs from $5k+ to ~$1.5k by consolidating the observability stack and retiring ScoutAPM, LogDNA/Mezmo, NewRelic, and Pingdom.
• Collaborated with the DevOps team to migrate infrastructure to AWS ECS using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Engineered an inter-service authentication mechanism to mitigate smart scraping and improve overall security.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to run continuous E2E tests, automatic tagging, and sync branches, streamlining the release process, cutting the release time from hours to under 10 minutes.
• Relaunched coursefinder.io, increasing weekly visits from 250 to over 3000, and boosting user engagement.
• Authored numerous technical designs and decision records, played a key role in mentoring junior engineers, onboarding new hires, and promoting knowledge sharing and best practices.

• Led full-stack development across multiple long-term client projects in fintech, healthtech, and marketing, collaborating with distributed teams and short-term freelancers.

• Architected and built scalable B2B/B2C systems with robust APIs, React frontends, real-time features, and third-party integrations (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, SaltEdge, GlobalWebIndex, MapBox, Crunchbase, Stream).

• Engaged closely with clients from planning to delivery, gathering requirements, and translating business needs into technical solutions.

• Took full ownership of end-to-end delivery, from architecture to deployment.

• Docuvax (June 2020 - February 2021): Digital medical record locker

  • Built the system from scratch with a secure, high-performance API architecture.
  • Integrated Braintree to support credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
  • Developed a custom coupon system to support percentage-based discounts, not handled natively by Braintree.

• Investory (March 2018 - July 2019): Portfolio tracking & shareholder management for startups and VCs

  • Led a development team of 3 developers and short-term freelancers.
  • Refactored a significant legacy codebase, upgraded Rails 4 to 5, and React 14 to 16.
  • Optimized core workflows: investor dashboards (+167%), company reports (+41%), data rooms (3.2x faster uploads).
  • Reduced code smells by ~40% using design patterns and Rails best practices (measured by RubyCritic).
  • Integrated 3rd-party APIs including Stripe, Stream, SaltEdge, MapBox, and Crunchbase.

• TalkCircle (November 2017 - February 2018): Online therapy platform

  • Took full ownership of the platform under a tight timeline and delivered it successfully as the sole developer.
  • Integrated Tokbox for audio/video sessions and Stripe for session-based and recurring payments.
  • Developed real-time messaging and notification systems using Rails 5 ActionCable WebSockets.

• Other Projects

  • MoCo: Designed and implemented RESTful B2B APIs for mortgage lenders.
  • Lucy: Consulted on architecture, integrated GlobalWebIndex, and mentored the team.
  • OTP Bank: Kickstarted the official events platform for OTP Bank Group in Europe from the ground up using Rails and React, including versioned APIs for mobile apps.
  • Reachbird: Developed a multi-tenant customer management feature and internal APIs. Strengthened React/Redux expertise.

Uala is a leading professional network in Europe for beauty and hairdressing, spread across more than 5 European countries, with different locales.

• Focused on data analytics and reporting, worked closely with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and translate them into efficient data models and queries.
• Designed and optimized complex SQL queries to generate analytics reports, enabling data-driven decisions through advanced statistical analysis.
• Integrated Segment to track user behavior and sync customer data for the marketing team.
• Led the overhaul of internal API documentation, defined standards, adopted OpenAPI/Swagger, and published using Redocly, significantly improving integration clarity and team onboarding.
• Collaborated with the backend team to develop and maintain RESTful APIs for core booking and venue workflows.

Aurora:

• A learning management system comprises a web-based application and API for mobile applications.
• Collaborated on Aurora Connector for parents, a mobile app built in Ionic, and customized a Cordova plugin.

Tapdeal:

• Kickstarted an eCommerce platform, built with Java Spring microservices architecture and AngularJS frontend.
• Used Scrapy for web crawling to seed categories and products.

Graduation Project: Task Allocation Optimisation based on Swarm Intelligence, Grade: Excellent.