Ahmed Thabet

Engineering Manager - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

github.com/xmonader - ahmed.te.youssef@gmail.com - (+20) 114 334 4150 - Cairo, Egypt

Summary

Engineering leader with 10+ years building decentralized cloud infrastructure, custom operating systems, and developer platforms: from bare-metal OS design to Kubernetes orchestration at scale. 6+ of those years leading engineering teams, 3+ as an engineering manager, currently running multiple teams on a peer-to-peer cloud spanning thousands of nodes across 60+ countries.

Experience

Engineering Manager, Codescalers, Jan 2023 - Present

Manage multiple engineering teams building the ThreeFold Grid, a decentralized P2P cloud spanning thousands of nodes across 60+ countries.
Own technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and delivery across the full stack: a custom Linux-based OS, multi-language SDKs, a Terraform provider, and web dashboards.
Run hiring, onboarding, and mentoring; set engineering standards for code review, testing, and release process across teams.

Software Development Team Lead, Codescalers, Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

Led development of the Jumpscale cloud automation framework, the 3Bot virtual system administrator, and the Virtual Data Center (VDC) platform.
Drove system architecture and hands-on development while owning code quality and on-time delivery for the team.

Software Engineer, Codescalers, Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

Designed and built cloud tooling for VM lifecycle management, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.

Freelance & Contract Work

Data Analyst, Otlob.com, Jan 2018 - Mar 2018: built an audio-fingerprinting pipeline over large-scale video datasets to measure marketing campaign reach.
Web Developer, Orascom Telecom, Jan 2010 - Mar 2010: built an internal PHP/CodeIgniter application for server-room environmental monitoring, replacing manual Excel workflows.

Selected Projects

Operating Systems & Core Infrastructure

Zero-OS: lead development of the custom Linux-based OS powering the entire ThreeFold Grid (Go).
ContentHive: content-addressed storage system inspired by IPFS (Go).
0-Disk: Network Block Device server with pluggable storage backends (Tarantool, Lua).
OpenVCloud: monitoring, alerting, and hardware health-checks for a libvirt-based cloud platform (Python).

Platforms & Developer Tools

KubeCloud: highly available Kubernetes platform on the ThreeFold Grid (Go, Vue.js, PostgreSQL).
VDC: Virtual Data Center with managed Kubernetes clusters, S3 storage, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring (Python, Stellar, Ansible).
VDC Marketplace: one-click application deployment marketplace built on top of VDC.
AIBroker: AI gateway aggregating multiple LLM providers with MCP server integration (Rust, Go).
Terraform Provider: Infrastructure-as-Code plugin for provisioning on the ThreeFold Grid (Go).
TFRobot: mass-deployment tool for large VM fleets (Go).
Gridify: Heroku-like deploy tool for the ThreeFold Grid (Go).
Farmerbot: power-management and operations automation for grid farmers (Go).

SDKs & Frameworks

Go SDK: primary SDK enabling delivery of multiple grid-based projects (Go).
TypeScript SDK: web developer SDK for ThreeFold Grid integration (TypeScript).
JS-NG: cloud automation framework (Python, Gevent).
JS-SDK: Threebot application server built on JS-NG (Python).
EWF: embeddable workflow framework for resilient, stateful multi-step processes (Go).
CRM: CRM system for the ThreeFold Token Foundation (Python, Flask, GraphQL, PostgreSQL).
publishingtools: web publishing framework for wikis, blogs, and websites (Crystal, Kemal, Svelte).

Infrastructure Tooling

AYS: agentless Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration with an event system, background tasks, and service templates.
Go farmer: cross-platform GUI for farm management (Go, Fyne). Additional: OAuth provider for Gogs, DMIDecode parser, GitHub-Gogs sync, and documentation generators for Jumpscale.

Open Source

Networking & Infrastructure

tcprouter: TCP router with SNI-based routing (Go).
tfgateway: ThreeFold gateway built on tcprouter and the CoreDNS Redis plugin.
coredns-redis: Redis plugin for CoreDNS; raqeeb: PID 1 replacement and alternative to Foreman.

Python Libraries

pygundb: GUN.js database server and client.
python-sonic-client: client for the Sonic search backend.
pyparsec: parser combinator library; python-pcre: PCRE bindings via ctypes; flask_itsyouonline: OAuth2 middleware for Flask.

Nim Ecosystem

nim-servy: web framework; nim-redisclient: Redis client and parser; nim-assets: bundle assets into a single binary.

Tools & Applications

vscode-capnp: Cap'n Proto extension for VS Code; helloED: pluggable, fast PyGTK text editor.
stellargui: lightweight Stellar wallet; raml2spore: generate SPORE clients from RAML specs.
Pida IDE: contributed the RegexToolkit and Pastebin plugins.

Publications & Translations

Nim Days: book on practical applications and libraries in Nim.
Python: Extensive Guide: Arabic programming guide.
Introduction to Ruby: Arabic programming guide.
Translations: PyQt4, PyGTK, Mono IronPython, and Cairo tutorials translated into Arabic.

Skills

Leadership: team management, hiring, mentoring, technical strategy, roadmap and delivery ownership, architecture review.
Languages: Go (Golang), Python, Rust, TypeScript, C, Nim, Crystal, Bash.
Infrastructure: Linux, Kubernetes, K3s, Helm, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, CoreDNS, Nginx, Traefik.
Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB.
APIs & protocols: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Cap'n Proto.
Frontend: Vue, Svelte, React.

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, 2014.
Mandatory military service, Egyptian Armed Forces, 2015 - 2016.
Languages: Arabic (native), English (business proficiency).