Firas Kafri
Co-Founder & CPO at Jordan Open Source Association
Amman, Amman, Jordan
Summary
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Top SchoolFiras Kafri is a seasoned entrepreneur and product-focused technologist with 13 years of experience building and scaling learning and developer-focused products from Amman, Jordan. As Co-Founder and CPO of Salalem, he blends product strategy with hands-on engineering to deliver a Learning Experience Platform that helps organizations assess skills and close knowledge gaps. He has a deep open-source pedigree as a maintainer on the widely used graphene-django GraphQL/Django integration, contributing release management, dependency fixes, and CI improvements. Firas’s background spans founding roles, accelerator leadership, and developer community building (including leading GDG Amman and Fedora ambassadorship), reflecting a rare mix of product, community, and technical stewardship. He’s comfortable moving between roadmap decisions and routine maintenance work—an operator who still ships version bumps and bug fixes himself. His interdisciplinary training in mobile cloud and entrepreneurship underpins a pragmatic approach to building developer-friendly platforms.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkThe Mobile Cloud Computing with Android (MoCCA) Specialization, Computer Science, 99.7, The Mobile Cloud Computing with Android (MoCCA) Specialization, Computer Science, 99.7 at Vanderbilt University
English
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Github Skills (20)
python10
django10
wpgraphql10
release-management10
wordpress-graphql10
graphene10
graphql10
github-ci9
githubaction-workflow9
testing8
documentation7
shell6
adb6
php6
android6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-python/graphene-django
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Build powerful, efficient, and flexible GraphQL APIs with seamless Django integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 55 reviews, 6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Firas primarily contributed to the maintenance and versioning of the graphene-django project. They made frequent updates to the `__init__.py` file to bump versions, reflecting a focus on release management. The user also addressed bug fixes related to dependencies and updated documentation, as well as the codebase for a Django-filter integration. They also upgraded Github actions and dev dependencies.
djangographql-apigraphenepythongraphql
firasalkafri/mobipress
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 7 months
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