Mosab Ahmad Mahmoud

Objective(s):

On the short run, my objective is to build solid experience in Software and Systems Engineering. On the long run, I believe Open Source concepts are a very fertile soil for a revolutionary solution for our nation to become really a 'NATION'! so I am interested in any efforts towards the process of developing a complete legal, cultural, economical, political, religious, social and -of course- technical model for the open source in Islamic and Arabic countries.

Work Experience:
Senior PHP Developer (Bluw-i Digital Architects)
June 2011 present Build the new version of Angel Investment Network (http://www.angelinvestmentnetwork.co.uk) Implementing agile practices in the firm

Senior PHP Developer (Basharsoft LLC)

April 2010 May 2011 Manage, monitor and maintain the online production server for our basharjobs platform (http://www.basharjobs.com) Design, develop, and implement BasharJobs platform with the team. Collaborate with marketing professionals to enhance the product interface. Take part in applying agile practices and techniques. Co-leading the development team along with the CTO.

Consultant Software & Systems Engineer (Arabia Inform)

November 2009 March2010 Was responsible for migrating some projects from proprietary suites to open source software.

Software Engineer (Citex Software)

October 2008 October 2009 Taking part in the Interclick Team, an interactive TV solution company based in Germany. This project was consisted of many components; PHP, Java and C++. The PHP parts included an admin portal, a user's portal and an editorial portal.

Building a portal consisting of many websites hosted on Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) and serving as a frontier for a complicated printing system hosted somewhere else using Drupal CMS and other PHP and web technologies. Was part of many internal activities like writing our coding standards, managing the internal network and infrastructure and helping other projects in times that are critical.

Linux sys admin and PHP developer (Media International)

January 2007 - September 2008 Administering load balanced Linux web servers and implementing MySQL replication and file synchronization between them. Monitoring the servers for solving production problems and preventing attacks that happened Customization and installation of a Youtube like video sharing solution. Migrating some of our clients websites' content from the CMS they are using to another CMS (mainly Drupal or Joomla) and applying necessary changes to keep the data intact. Finding various open source tools for our internal use either project managers, developers or testers and so on. Maintaining current website and developing new features in www.20at.com as a project in the company I am working in Responsible for choosing hosting environments that fit projects' needs, and managing these accounts.

PHP/MySQL developer (20at.com)

January 2004 - December 2006 Developing a CMS from scratch to fit the editors' needs, and migrated it from an old version to this new version. Making a new version of the CMS to avoid some security holes, enhancing the usability of the CMS and adding more user-friendly functionalities. Making Special pages (nested websites) to fit some events including presidential elections, parliamentary elections, Ramadan, World Cup, Lebanon war and more. Migrating from a previous CMS they used (phpws) to the newly developed CMS i made.

Freelancing projects
Since 2003 I have started my career as a freelancer and I have worked on several projects since 2003. And I have my own projects that I am working on. You can browse the portfolio by clicking here. [http://www.dotslashconfigure.com/portfolio]

Technical Skills:
Operating Systems:

Very good knowledge about GNU/Linux " tried many distros like GNU/Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, fedora core, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Slackware, SUSE, Knoppix, Backtrack and others". Good knowledge about Microsoft Operating Systems. Fair knowledge about Mac OS.

Programming:

PHP (Symfony, Code Igniter, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Custom Development) MySQL Javascript (JQuery, YUI) HTML / CSS UNIX/Linux Shell "Basic Knowledge" Basic knowledge about GNU/Linux internals, system calls, pipes, Python Basic knowledge C++ (built some scattered medium projects). TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX knowledge Basic Knowledge

Volunteer work:
Sea Scout Member:
July 1999 - September 2003 Was an active member in the Sea Scouting Movement: Was involved in organizing many camps and events, some were nationwide, and a few international camps hosted in Egypt. Trained small and new scouts on camping, sealing and other scouting skills. I was at the degree of Captain when i left the scouting life.

Languages:

Arabic: [Mother tongue]: Reading : Excellent. Written : Excellent. Spoken : Excellent. Listening : Excellent. English: Reading : Excellent. Written : Excellent. Spoken : Excellent.

Listening : Excellent. Just in case I have the ability to learn new languages fast :)

Training and courses:

Courses

and trainings I attended : Advanced Agile Training - Spring 2010 Oracle Introduction course - Winter 2005. Networks and CCNA Introduction course - Summer 2005. PHP and MySQL Course. - Winter 2004. Red Hat essentials course - Summer 2007. Red Hat administration course - Summer 2007. Red Hat network and security - Summer 2007.

Courses and training programs I gave/trained : Virtual Volunteering: An online e-training course on "virtual volunteering", on Islamonline.net e-training service, the course duration was a month with a practical project at its end, and the company won the Volunteering Award of the year for foundations in Qatar because of this course. [Summer 2006]. PHP and MySQL introduction Course.[Summer 2006]. PHP and MySQL introduction Course.[winter 2007]. Drupal introduction Course.[Summer 2008].

Hobbies & interests:

Work and career Related: FOSS and FLOSS, I love to dig and search for new open source applications and technologies. Reading in scalability, currently i read about scalability issues and how big projects like Youtube, Wikimedia, Amazon, Flickr and others' infrastructures are built. I still don't have practical experience applying most of the techniques, but i am quite a good learner. Personal: Open Source Community The relationship between technology/software and other fields of life Reading (specially Scientific and technical issues) Swimming and Sea Scouting (i am a Pisces by the way ;)) Blogging and writing : at my own website (http://www.mos3abof.com), and sometimes i write articles for newspapers or websites. Surfing the Internet discovering and observing trends and communities around there Traveling, although that was long ago Music, I love independent art and have a different taste in music Drawing (especially engineering drawing)

Conferences & Events:

December 9th 2010, attended the Google Egypt day (G-Egypt) for developers, I

even won a Google mug :) July 17-19th 2008: Attended wikimania 2008 conference organized by the Wikimedia foundation, at the Alexandria Library. March 2nd 2008: Participated in Agile Egypt, a one day conference and workshop about agile software development methods and techniques, this was the first activity for agile in Egypt.

Personal Stuff:

Nationality: Egyptian. Age: 25 Date Of Birth: 13/3/1986 Place Of Birth: Cairo, Egypt. Marital state: Married.

Education:

Currently a student in the Faculty of commerce, Cairo university [expected graduation 2012]. Spent 4 yrs. in Faculty of Engineering (in architecture, civil and computer engineering departments), but left it for some personal issues [2002 2007]. High school, [2002]. For more info about my educational history please check my blog post about it on the following link : http://mos3abof.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post_22.html

Contact & Social Info:

Mobile : +2 011 99 42 443 E-MAIL : mosab.ahmad@gmail.com Twitter : @mos3abof Linked In : http://www.linkedin.com/in/mosab Stackoverflow : http://careers.stackoverflow.com/mos3abof Skype : mos3abof