Eslam Hamouda
Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting high-impact distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Currently at Amazon (L5), where I work on cross-border fulfillment capabilities that move products faster and cheaper for customers across the globe.
Before Amazon I built platforms at international startups: designing things from scratch, migrating legacy systems, and making sure the infrastructure didn’t fall apart at scale. I’ve worked across the full stack but I’m most at home in the backend: distributed systems, cloud, APIs, and the unglamorous work of making things reliable.
Outside of the day job I build open-source tools, write here, and occasionally mentor engineers who are earlier in their career. This blog is where I put my thinking: mostly backend, systems design, and whatever I’m currently figuring out.
If something resonates or you want to talk, get in touch.
Career Timeline
Software Engineer (L5)
Amazon
Cairo, Egypt
Built cross-border fulfillment capabilities for Global Store, improving delivery speed and cost efficiency for Prime customers across UK, AE, and SA markets.
Senior Software Engineer
Darts Solutions Inc.
Remote
Architected enterprise .NET Core platforms for Canadian clients, integrating multi-gateway payments, CRM systems, and fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer
REVOSUITE Inc.
Cairo, Egypt
Led backend infrastructure and DevOps from inception to production, and migrated an 8-year-old Rails monolith to a modern .NET Core architecture.
Software Engineer
Benchmark Labs
Cairo, Egypt
Developed the real-time backend for Beamkast, a live presentation platform, using Elixir Phoenix with WebSocket-based audience engagement features.
Software Engineer
Sarmady – a Vodafone Company
Giza, Egypt
Modernized admin dashboards for two of Egypt's highest-traffic websites into SPAs using Angular 2, and built a configurable interactive ads engine.
Software Engineer
Information Systems Institute for Armed Forces
Cairo, Egypt
Migrated legacy Oracle systems to ASP.NET MVC and built automated survey and exam platforms for internal military education management.
Software Engineer
Benchmark Middle East
Cairo, Egypt
Prototyped the first MVP of the Beamkast product using ASP.NET SignalR, establishing the real-time foundation later replatformed to Node.js.
Software Engineer
Freelance
Tanta, Egypt
Delivered .NET solutions across social media, accounting, and productivity domains, including an open-source local screen-sharing tool.