MOSTAFA's CV
MOSTAFA SOHDY SAYED ABDELFATTAH
Engineering Manager
Profile summary
Strategic Engineering Manager with 10 years shaping software engineering outcomes. Known for cross-functional team leadership, full employee lifecycle management, and video pipeline optimization. Bilingual in Arabic, English, and basic in French, bringing cross-cultural team leadership across international markets including GCC experience. Committed to aligning technical execution with stakeholder objectives and driving delivery quality.
Career highlights
Engineering Management and Hiring: Led a 15-person engineering organization across multiple product pods while redesigning the engineering hiring pipeline to accelerate candidate screening.
Video Pipeline Optimization: Built a 3-stage video reprocessing and transcoding pipeline that eliminated third-party services and achieved a 72% cost saving across more than 30,000 videos.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Managed full employee lifecycles, performance evaluations, and client project delivery while maintaining team morale through headcount fluctuations.
Key skills
Professional experience
- Currently leading a 15-person engineering org across 3 product pods, reporting directly to the Founder/CTO, with direct focus on ~10 engineers spanning the AI/CV team, scrum master, and graduate training.
- Redesigned the engineering hiring pipeline to improve screening speed and candidate quality, using it to run two concurrent senior searches (Principal Engineer, AI Engineer).
- Architected the investor demo flow using a working-backward methodology, enabling the team to visualise tangible demo output early and build their own roadmap from it toward a hard December deadline.
Directed engineering delivery, people operations, and organization health across multiple client initiatives while partnering directly with executive stakeholders. Managed the full employee lifecycle from recruitment and structured review cycles to performance management and offboarding. Maintained project execution standards through team transitions while overseeing concurrent workstreams and engineering personnel.
- Designed the Think-iteer Journey lifecycle framework spanning job creation through offboarding, establishing microprocesses with defined inputs, outputs, metrics, and assigned owners for engineering personnel.
- Managed employee growth through structured 30/60/90-day plans, performance evaluations, bonus allocations, and regular one-on-one meetings.
- Maintained project delivery quality and team morale during headcount reductions while managing multiple concurrent client initiatives and engineering resources.
Directed engineering operations across three concurrent workstreams encompassing 8 software developers, owning sprint ceremonies, UI and UX working sessions, 1:1 meetings, and developer mentoring. Managed GitHub and Linear workflows alongside technical interviews for candidates at multiple levels, contributing to business development by shortlisting projects, co-creating proposals, and recommending engineer profiles.
- Executed technical evaluations across all levels of engineering candidates.
- Recommended engineer profiles for targeted project allocations.
Guided engineering team members through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pair programming to support the adoption of WebRTC, gRPC, RabbitMQ, Vue.js, and Electron while fostering team collaboration.
- Engineered a 3-stage video reprocessing and transcoding pipeline using FFMPEG,.NET, and MSSQL, eliminating third-party services and achieving a 72% cost saving across 30,000+ videos.
- Developed Email and SMS microservices to overhaul notification infrastructure alongside a microservices-based exams platform on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and.NET Core 3.1.
- Built core backend features for the Nagwa Readers API including favouriting, logging, user management, series, and comics using PostgreSQL, C#, and ASP.NET Core.
- Built custom video delivery network infrastructure for Nagwa.com including a media gateway, a lightweight media player, and real-time viewing analytics.
- Engineered text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools that powered video translation features in Nagwa Studio and narration capabilities in Nagwa Readers.
- Built JoMe as an early-stage side project Using AWS Bedrock to process personalized sensory decisions for users.
- Integrated Mapbox to surface location data and personalized sensory results visually within the application interface.
- Delivered around 10 brand identity and marketing projects for independent clients and startups.
- Built photography and videography content pipelines tailored to edtech and F&B markets.
Physical AI (In Progress)
Basic Indoctrination to Airframe & Powerplant
Human Factor Course
Embedded Systems Diploma
SolidWorks Certification
- Converted the LabVIEW feedback control program to ANSI C code, enabling custom sampling rates and faster data processing.
- Designed and 3D-printed a custom wind tunnel for thermal experimentation.
- Built a MATLAB data acquisition system to measure thermal performance of coolants.
- Prepared 16+ competitive Building Management System solutions.
- Contributed to winning a new client Letter of Intent.
Projects
Built a proof-of-concept Android application integrating Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with Gemini Flash Live, demonstrating real-time fine-motor-skill teaching feasibility ahead of an investor demo.
Assessed mixed-reality hardware options for egocentric capture and conducted a TipTap rich-text editor evaluation to inform a build-vs-integrate decision for the platform's content layer.
Think-it's flagship. Delivered for a German government-backed initiative with Mercedes, BMW, Bosch, Skoda and others. Led a team of 4 to 7 engineers across frontend, backend, and infrastructure over 18 months, maintaining 99.92% uptime on a security-critical platform. Delivered MDS 3.0 migration, Kafka integration, vendor lock-in removal, and a new UI.
Took over mid-flight. Stabilized delivery and introduced a client communication framework for bug escalation. Built a daily snapshot system handling real-time fund updates for hundreds of fund holders where data accuracy was non-negotiable. Turned a difficult handover into one of Think-it's most successful client relationships.
Contributed as both an engineer and part-time lead to the migration of 100,000+ distributed user records into a centralised identity platform connecting Microsoft Dynamics, Magento, Milo, and a payments portal, delivering the new DB structure and TypeScript APIs to spec.
Collaboratively built the first MVP of a changemaker social platform with a founding team. Designed to connect people who have something to offer with those pursuing missions worth helping. Built on Next.js and Supabase, with scalability in mind.
Enhanced and restructured the internal LMS for cohorts of hundreds of learners, with a focus on mentor-learner connection and progress tracking as the core product value.
Led CoachbeeGPT (LLM integration), Headless CMS, and Opportunity & Mentor Pool features.
3-stage reprocessing and transcoding pipeline eliminating third-party services, achieving 72% cost saving (~150k EGP) across 30,000+ videos. FFMPEG,.NET, MSSQL.
Built Email/SMS microservices to overhaul Nagwa's notification infrastructure, and a microservices-based exams platform on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and.NET Core 3.1.
Core backend features (favouriting, logging, user management, series, comics) built on PostgreSQL, C#, and ASP.NET Core.
Custom CDN for Nagwa.com. Gateway, lightweight media player, real-time viewing analytics.
TTS and STT tools enabling video translation (Nagwa Studio) and narration (Nagwa Readers); researched NoSQL migration feasibility and WebRTC signalling to shape key infrastructure decisions.
Education
Aerospace Engineering | Ottawa, Canada
- CGPA 3.5 / 4.0 (A–)
- Entrance Scholarship 2011
- Faculty & Dean's List 2011–2014
Languages
Arabic · Native
English · Fluent
French · Basic