Ahmed Thabet

Engineering Manager - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

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

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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. Recently building LLM infrastructure and agents: gateways, autonomous coding agents, and RAG systems.

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 code review, testing, and CI/CD standards (GitHub Actions, Forgejo).

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

AI & Agents

• llmrouter: OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with prepaid billing, provider routing and failover, and per-key policy (Go, PostgreSQL, Redis).
• Hero Agent: autonomous agent orchestrating goals, workers, and tools; its lean coding mode uses 1.7-5.3x fewer input tokens and benchmarked fastest of eight agents on open models (Rust).
• Diwan: self-hosted AI staff that delivers real Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with native Arabic right-to-left, scheduled routines, approvals, and MCP connectors (Go).
• Hero Researcher: RAG research and background-check engine that flags unsourced claims (Rust).
• Hero SafePad: zero-knowledge encrypted editor; the key lives only in the link, the server stores ciphertext (TypeScript).

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).

Cloud Platforms

• 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.
• Gridify: Heroku-like deploy tool for the ThreeFold Grid (Go).
• Farmerbot: power-management and operations automation for grid farmers (Go).

Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation

• Terraform Provider: Infrastructure-as-Code plugin for provisioning on the ThreeFold Grid (Go).
• TFRobot: mass-deployment tool for large VM fleets (Go).
• 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.

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).
• CRM: CRM system for the ThreeFold Token Foundation (Python, Flask, GraphQL, PostgreSQL).
• publishingtools: web publishing framework for wikis, blogs, and websites (Crystal, Kemal, Svelte).

Open Source

Virtualization & Storage

• uvm: runs OCI images as KVM microVMs with a Docker-like CLI, compose, and a JSON-RPC daemon (Go).
• chvm: Docker-like CLI running OCI images as microVMs on Cloud Hypervisor, with virtiofs volumes, vsock exec, and TAP/Mycelium networking (Rust).
• castor: content-addressed, commit-based object store; atomic tree commits, FastCDC/BLAKE3 dedup, and capability tokens instead of presigned URLs (Go).
• ewf: embeddable workflow engine with persisted state, crash resumption, retries, and queue-based execution (Go).

Networking

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

Tools & Applications

• SafeBrowser: remote browser isolation streaming headless Chrome over CDP, with audio, mobile touch, and SSRF protection (TypeScript, Go).
• 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.
• murag: offline RAG over personal notes with cited answers (Python); Pida IDE: 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, KVM, Cloud Hypervisor, microVMs.
• AI/LLM: agents, RAG, MCP, LLM gateways and routing.
• 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).