Mahmoud Amr — the long version.
Senior software architect & platform engineer in Cairo, Egypt. Ten years turning ambiguous business problems into regulated, observable production systems — across fintech, banking, marketplaces, and SaaS.
Mahmoud Amr is a senior software architect and platform engineer operating from Cairo, Egypt — Top-Rated on Upwork since 2016, 100% feedback. He goes end to end on purpose: the same person who designs the domain model deploys it, monitors it, and puts a clean interface in front of it. Recent work spans an enterprise BI-platform migration with an AI query layer, a Central-Bank-regulated lending platform, a 176,000-line HR system, and production AI voice & SMS agents. Java, Node, Python, and Snowflake on AWS & Kubernetes. Bilingual (English + Arabic).
Key achievements
Replaced 7 vendor platforms with in-house builds and automation — $20M+ in annual cost savings across Finance, HR, and IT.
Migrated a fintech off a six-figure proprietary BI stack to self-hosted Apache Superset — 286 tiles rebuilt cell-for-cell, plus an AI natural-language query layer.
Solution architect for a regulated digital lending platform — Java 21 origination system, 12 regulated integrations, maker–checker controls, delivered on OpenShift.
Solo-led migration of one billion+ records in under 30 days to hit go-live, on an event-driven platform holding a 99.987% SLA.
Experience
Senior Staff Engineer & Head of AI Lending Squad · Suez Canal Bank (SCB)
Egypt · HybridHeading the AI Lending squad at a Central-Bank-regulated retail bank — architecture, delivery, and team.
- Lead the AI Lending squad — solution architecture, delivery, and engineers for the bank's digital consumer-lending platform
- Own the Java 21 loan-origination system: 10 domain modules, 73 endpoints, 12 regulated integrations (credit bureau, eKYC, core banking, AI risk scoring), maker–checker controls, AOP audit + PII masking
- Shipped an Angular 21 (zoneless) back-office, a customer web channel, and two design systems (Flutter golden-tested + Angular) on OpenShift with ArgoCD GitOps across 9+ environments
- Bilingual (Arabic-RTL / English), auditable application-to-funded-loan delivery under Central-Bank regulation
Sr. Software Engineer — Squad Lead · GlobalCorp
Egypt · HybridLeading modernization of a fintech platform and its squad.
- Engineered Java microservices + Angular front-ends from scratch in under a month
- Automated ~60% of manual workflows via Camunda BPMN and AI-assisted fraud / risk models
- Event-driven backbone on RabbitMQ with retry/DLQ patterns for throughput + fault tolerance
- Hit 99.987% SLA uptime while accelerating releases via CI/CD + Docker/Kubernetes
- Solo-led legacy migration of 1B+ records onto modern stack
Sr. Cloud Engineer · CloudLabs
London · RemoteBackend and cloud for an AI-driven serverless ATS.
- Serverless architecture on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Terraform IaC
- AI ingestion (Textract + Comprehend + OpenAI) hitting >90% parsing accuracy
- Event-driven microservices on EventBridge + SQS, secured with OAuth2/JWT
- CloudWatch + X-Ray observability and GitHub Actions CI/CD cut time-to-hire ~40%
Automations & In-House Development Team Lead · TCP
Remote (US)Led automation and in-house platform team for a US credit-repair leader.
- Replaced 7 vendor platforms with in-house builds, saving $70K / month
- Centralized onboarding across 100+ systems, cutting onboarding time ~60%
- Automation pipelines on n8n, Zapier, Power Automate, and custom Python — ~50% throughput lift
- Zero-downtime cutover from legacy PHP to Node.js + Java Spring Boot microservices
- Migrated infra to AWS (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, CloudFront, Route53)
- Delivered $20M+ in annual cost savings across Finance, HR, and IT
Senior Software Engineer — Full-Stack · MVI Solutions
Florida · RemoteSole engineer and architect for the HOABB SaaS platform.
- Cloud-native Node.js + Python microservices backing a 250k+ community platform
- Real-time chat and news polling on MongoDB + WebSockets
- Matchmaking platform with MLS-like real-estate feed integration
- GitHub Actions + Docker + MongoDB Atlas CI/CD; drove $120M+ in subscription revenue
Software Engineer · Rawaq
Saudi Arabia · RemoteEdTech platform engineering and cloud migration.
- High-performance REST APIs (Python + PostgreSQL) for scalable e-learning
- Cut ticket resolution time ~35% via Java Spring Boot + AngularJS internal tooling
- AI-enhanced LMS with dynamic recommendations and personalized learning paths
- Migrated 50% of microservices from on-prem to Azure + GCP with hybrid networking
Software Engineer · Kazyon-Plus
EgyptRetail-tech systems for a growing chain.
- Front-end on AngularJS 13, backend services on Java Spring Boot 2
- System performance up ~90%, operational costs down ~$100K via workflow redesign
- Cross-functional Agile delivery
Freelancer — Full-Stack & Web-Scraping Expert · Upwork / Self
RemoteContinuous freelance practice since 2016 — Top-Rated on Upwork, 100% feedback.
- Upwork Top-Rated freelancer (2021), 5-star profile, 100% feedback rate
- Ran high-end commercial platforms for 5 international clients — $90K+ revenue impact
- Built intelligent AI-powered web-scraping software
- Shipped multi-tenant LMS platforms for enterprise training
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science