Mustafa Zidan Abuelfadl

Sparetech GmbH · Remote

• Designed and implemented an agentic AI product research pipeline that autonomously enriches catalog data by orchestrating LLM-driven query planning, parallelised supplier search, and a validate-then-extract loop, reducing manual data entry effort and improving import quality at controlled cost via built-in time, query, and spend budgets.

DAMEDIC GmbH · Remote

• Designed a dynamic rule engine and ETL pipeline that transforms heterogeneous hospital data into billing-ready formats tailored to each hospital.
• Helped bootstrap a knowledge graph service using Neo4j to model relationships between diagnoses, procedures, and billing rules, enhancing system context and suggestion quality.
• Orchestrated multi-stage data workflows with Apache Airflow, improving error recovery, reprocessing logic, and dependency management.
• Reduced manual billing time from 20–30 minutes to 5–10 minutes per case by introducing hybrid rule/ML-based suggestions.
• Defined and rolled out company-wide engineering standards, including secure development policies, GitLab CI/CD templates, and code review practices.
• Contributed to ISO 27001 and C5 certification efforts as part of the Security Council, focusing on secure development, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

TV Squared · Munich, Germany

• Developed a real-time spot detection system to monitor TV streams and identify ad segments by brand and timing.
• Built session analytics pipelines to track user activity and correlate ad viewership with web/app engagement.
• Optimised Redis and Go-based services for high concurrency and performance in production workloads.
• Used Kafka and Apache Spark for large-scale event processing and attribution tracking.
• Collaborated within a team of 5 engineers and supported Go code-base quality through informal mentorship and pair programming.

Verve Group · Munich, Germany

• Developed a high-volume segmentation engine to classify mobile users based on behavioural patterns for personalised ad delivery.
• Handled ~2.5M requests/min across a distributed architecture using Kafka, Aerospike, PostgreSQL, and Java.
• Collaborated with data science teams to enable dynamic segment evaluation and triggering mechanisms.
• Managed and provisioned infrastructure using Ansible over AWS.
• Built high-throughput ingestion APIs with Node.js and Express to collect user behaviour data and queue it for downstream processing.
• Exposed segmentation results to advertisers via a dedicated API and Angular-based portal for targeting and analytics.

MENA Commerce · Cairo, Egypt

• Led the development of a price-comparison platform aggregating e-commerce products from multiple retailers via scraping and catalogue normalisation.
• Built the product prototype that contributed to securing $1M in funding as part of the company’s strategic growth.
• Managed a 10-engineer team, defined the architecture, and implemented core services using Python, Go, and Angular.
• Designed search and recommendation layers with Elasticsearch and Redis to support product discovery.
• Oversaw technology selection, platform direction, and regular reporting to cofounders for investor updates.

OverC Studios · Cairo, Egypt

• Developed and maintained various web applications.
• Led architectural and development efforts for the Maki platform.
• Optimised code performance for improved user experience and system efficiency.
• Mentored junior developers, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity.
• Regularly reviewed peers’ code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.

Tamkeen Capital · Cairo, Egypt

• Improved, integrated, and maintained a wide array of in-house and 3rd party Ruby gems for different business domains.
• Worked on the architecture, design, and implementation of the core platform functionalities.
• Developed the funding engine on top of the Raneen platform.

National Net Ventures · Cairo, Egypt

• Contributed to the development of the Mubasher.info portal.
• Implemented an integration layer to expose business services through unified, secure, and manageable push/pull channels.
• Documented architecture, system features, APIs, and integration guidelines.
• Analysed J2EE portal performance, identified bottlenecks, and optimised them.

National Net Ventures · Cairo, Egypt

• Maintained legacy web applications.
• Built UIs using XHTML and CSS.
• Developed the company website.
• Created a modular two-way SMS API for easy integration of SMS functionality in projects.
• Enabled application integration through a robust XML-RPC API.
• Developed a custom JIRA plugin.
• Implemented and deployed an internal Human Resources Management System.