Ahmed Thabet – Engineering Manager

Ahmed Thabet

@xmonader · (+20) 1143344150 · ahmed.te.youssef@gmail.com

Building and scaling the world’s largest decentralized P2P cloud infrastructure for over 8 years.

Experience

Codescalers: Engineering Manager (2023 – Present)
Leading multiple engineering teams responsible for the design, development, and operation of the world’s largest decentralized P2P cloud infrastructure.
Ownership includes technical strategy, architectural decisions, roadmap planning, delivery, hiring, mentoring, and cross-team coordination across the Threefold Grid ecosystem.
Codescalers: Software Development Team Lead (2020 – 2023)
Led the development of the largest P2P cloud infrastructure in the world, including the Jumpscale cloud framework, the 3Bot virtual system administrator, and the Virtual Data Center (VDC).
Focused on system architecture, hands-on development, code quality, and delivery.
Codescalers: Software Engineer (April 2016 – 2020)
Designed and implemented cloud tooling for infrastructure management, including virtual machines, containers, and automation workflows.
Otlob.com: Data Analyst (Freelance)
Extracted audio fingerprints from large-scale video datasets to evaluate marketing campaign performance.
Orascom Telecom: Web Developer (Freelance)
Built a PHP/CodeIgniter application to manage internal server air-conditioning data, replacing Excel-based workflows.

Work

Codescalers (Engineering Manager)

I lead the development of the largest P2P cloud and the ecosystem of tooling around it.

ZOS: Leading the development of Zero-OS, the operating system powering the Threefold Grid (Go)
AIBroker: Leading the development of an AI Broker built on top of multiple LLM providers and MCP servers (Rust,Go)
KubeCloud: Highly available Kubernetes platform running on the Threefold Grid (Go, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Docker)
EWF: Lightweight, embeddable workflow framework for Go applications, enabling resilient, stateful, multi-step processes (Go)
ContentHive: Content-addressed storage system inspired by IPFS (Go)
JS-NG: Led the development of the cloud automation and configuration framework (Python, Gevent, Docker)
JS-SDK: Led the development of the Threefold Grid software toolkit and the Threebot application server (Python, Gevent, Docker)
VDC: Led the development of the Virtual Data Center platform (Kubernetes clusters, S3, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, management dashboards) on the Threefold Grid (Python, Gevent, Stellar blockchain, Kubernetes, Ansible, Grafana)
VDC Marketplace: Led the development of the Virtual Data Center Marketplace, enabling one-click application deployments
Terraform/OpenTofu Plugin: Led the development of the Terraform provider for the Threefold Grid (Go)
Golang SDK: Led the development of the Go SDK, enabling delivery of multiple grid-based projects
TFRobot: Led the development of a mass-deployment tool for large VM fleets on the Threefold Grid
Gridify: Led the development of a Heroku-like deployment tool for projects on the Threefold Grid
Farmerbot: Led the development of a power-management and operations tool for grid farmers
Typescript SDK: Led the development of the TypeScript SDK to enable web developers to integrate with the Threefold Grid
Go farmer: Cross-platform GUI application for farmers to manage their farms (Go, Fyne)
publishingtools: Led the development of a web publishing framework for wikis, blogs, and websites, primarily for Threefold (Crystal, Kemal, Svelte)
CRM: Led the development of a generic CRM system for the Threefold Token Foundation (Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker)
0-Disk: Developed a Network Block Device (NBD) server with multiple storage backends; later replaced by 0-db (Tarantool, Lua, fio)
AYS: Agentless Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration system built on Jumpscale; implemented event systems, background tasks, and service templates (OwnCloud, S3, PHP, Nginx)
OpenVCloud: Cloud platform based on libvirt and Python; developed monitoring, alerting, and hardware health-check tooling
Additional work: OAuth provider for Gogs, DMIDecode parser, rtinfo integration, internal development workflow automation, GitHub–Gogs synchronization, and documentation generators for Jumpscale 7 and 8

Open Source Projects

pygundb: GUN.js database server and client (Python)
tcprouter: TCP router with SNI-based routing (Go)
tfgateway: Threefold gateway built on tcprouter and CoreDNS Redis plugin
nim-servy: Web framework for Nim
vscode-capnp: Cap’n Proto extension for VS Code
coredns-redis: Redis plugin for CoreDNS
flask_itsyouonline: OAuth2 middleware for Flask
python-pcre: PCRE bindings for Python using ctypes
raqeeb: PID 1 replacement and advanced alternative to Foreman
pyparsec: Parser combinator library for Python
helloED: Pluggable, fast PyGTK text editor
stellargui: Lightweight Stellar blockchain wallet
Pida IDE: Contributed RegexToolkit and Pastebin plugins
python-sonic-client: Python client for Sonic search backend
nim-assets: Bundle assets into a single Nim binary
nim-redisclient: Redis client and parser for Nim
raml2spore: Generate SPORE clients from RAML specifications

Publications / Translations

Nim Days: Practical applications and libraries in Nim
Python: Extensive Guide
Introduction to Ruby
Translations: PyQt4, PyGTK, Mono IronPython, and Cairo tutorials translated into Arabic

Skills & Technologies

Languages: Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, Nim, TypeScript, Crystal, C, Bash, Scheme, Haskell, Scala, OCaml
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB
APIs: REST, Swagger, RAML, GraphQL, gRPC, Cap’n Proto
Web Frameworks: Flask, Flask-Admin, Sanic, Django, FastAPI, Bottle, CodeIgniter, Laravel, CakePHP, Yii, Rails, Sinatra, Gin, Gorilla, Echo
Frontend: Svelte, Sapper, Vue, React
Infrastructure: Linux, Vagrant, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, K3s, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, CoreDNS, Nginx, Caddy, Traefik

Education & Languages

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
English: Business proficiency (speaking, reading, writing)