Ahmed Elsayed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Egypt with nine years of experience building backend and full-stack systems using Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript. He has contributed to notable open-source commerce infrastructure—helping enhance Saleor's GraphQL API, add metadata filtering, and refactor payment integrations—demonstrating strong domain knowledge in e-commerce backends. Ahmed has a history of rapid-impact roles at startups and consultancy environments, where he focuses on pragmatic schema and resolver design, testing, and plugin extensibility. His background in electrical and electronics engineering gives him a systems-oriented mindset that complements his software craftsmanship. Pragmatic and unafraid to iterate, he balances shipping features with improving platform architecture and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Zagazig University
Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:24 reviews, 6 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to back-end development, focusing on enhancements to the GraphQL API and associated testing. Their work involved adding features to query attributes and users by specific criteria (slug, email) and modifying existing schema and resolvers to support these functionalities. Additionally, the user refactored payment gateway integrations by extracting a decorator for active plugin checks and fixed content-security-policy issues for plugins. Further contributions included adding metadata filtering and allowing plugins to create custom error codes, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's architecture.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
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