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Ahmad Sameh

SDE II (L5)|
Backend Engineer
ML Systems

Amazon — AdRisk  ·  Edinburgh, UK

🇬🇧 Edinburgh, UK — open to visa sponsorship for new roles

Experience

Amazon — AdRisk

Software Development Engineer II (L5)

Edinburgh, UK
Apr 2024 – Present
  • Human-In-The-Loop UI Revamp: centralised all valuable data into a single security-engineer review UI; average time for complex manual case review dropped by +60%.
  • Data "KeyRing" Project: restructured central data model to link IDs across multiple systems; reduced investigation research times from 30 minutes to sub-second.
  • Simulated Detection & Signature Validation (Hybrid V2): automated +70% of reviews; processed 1,000+ signatures/week; new manual-review UI cut avg handling time from 4 min to 30 sec.
  • Production AI model for landing-page threat analysis running at 100K+ pages/day scale.
  • TDI infrastructure revamp: resolved 2 major OpenSearch outages; added monitoring across 9 critical components; managed 50+ production incidents with detailed RCAs.
  • Regulatory compliance automation: cut on-boarding checks from hours to seconds; on-boarded FCA, Spain, Turkey; handled cross-jurisdiction cases.
  • Salesforce malware on-call lookup: auto-attached contextual intel, saving 2–20 mins per urgent ticket.

Microsoft — Clarity for Mobile Apps

Software Development Engineer II

Cairo, Egypt
Jul 2022 – Mar 2024
  • Built a tool to inject the Clarity Mobile SDK into any installed test app, cutting deploy/test time from hours to 3 minutes and reducing release bugs by 40%.
  • Built a Google Play analysis tool to download & statically analyse APKs (API levels, libraries, market share), processing 40% of the store.
  • Shipped SDK features: sensitive-data masking, asset compression, and complex gesture collection.

Incorta — Engine Team

Software Engineer

Cairo, Egypt
Apr 2020 – Jun 2022
  • Closed gaps and implemented core structure for Schema Update Revamp; fixed 40% of in-dev bugs and 30% post-release.
  • Built a calculation formula testing pipeline that preemptively caught 1 fatal, 4 critical, and 36 minor bugs.

Affectiva — Platform Team

Data Engineer

Cairo, Egypt
Apr 2019 – Apr 2020
  • Optimised data ingestion/processing pipelines (runtime −60%); created "Data-Split" tool for datasets (prep time −40%).
  • Cleaned the central database (query time −20%, storage −50%); built utilities for visualisation/analysis.

Zewail City of Science and Technology

Teaching Assistant

Cairo, Egypt
Sep 2020 – Jun 2022
  • Revamped Big Data Analytics projects to use real-world datasets (League of Legends, Reddit, Twitter); helped set up a high-performance distributed computing lab.
  • Taught Big Data Analytics — Fall 2020, Fall 2021; Computer Vision — Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.

Skills

Programming

Java
Python
C#
Node.js
Kotlin
SQL

Frontend

React
CloudScape

Backend

ASP.NET
Spring
Flask
ExpressJS

Cloud / DevOps

AWS
Azure
Docker
Terraform
Jenkins

Data

Spark
Hadoop
HDFS
Presto
OpenSearch

Projects

Squickers

Playable

Microsoft Hackathon Game Jam — Oct 2023

Unity3D puzzle-platformer built in 4 days for the "Perspective" Game Jam. Features unique perspective-shifting mechanics and challenging level design.

Unity3DC#Game DesignPhysics

Belladonna

In Progress

Custom Guitar Build — Edinburgh, 2025–Present

Building a custom electric guitar with hybrid magnetic–piezo electronics. Integrating Bare Knuckle pickups, Graph Tech Ghost system, and custom artwork. Documenting design and craftsmanship for an upcoming video series.

HardwareElectronicsGuitarDesign

Education

B.E. in Computer Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Cairo, Egypt

Sep 2014 – Jul 2019

Contact

Open to SDE / ML engineering roles. I currently require employer sponsorship for a new UK Skilled Worker visa.