# Ahmed Soliman > Senior Software Engineer Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ahmedsoliman ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Spring Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas, United States * Led migration of legacy Ruby on Rails app, upgrading from Ruby 2.4 to 3 and Rails 4 to 7, ensuring seamless transition and system reliability. * Spearheaded the transformation of the legacy monolith codebase by architecting and implementing modern microservices using Node.js, TypeScript, CouchDB, and gRPC, enhancing scalability, and maintainability. * Innovated interpreter for compiling Protobuf messages into GraphQL/TypeScript, streamlining microservices' data communication. * Pioneered the implementation of a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, managing private npm packages for efficient version control and module distribution. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Speechify Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area * Used AWS Polly alongside a few other AI solutions to generate 130+ human-sounding voices in 30+ Languages. * Used TypeScript, ReactJS, and SCSS to implement and maintain the Speechify Chrome Extension, providing features such as Reading and modifying opened webpages such as Google Docs, Emails, etc. * Developed and maintained Speechify’s web application, using NextJs, AWS ServerLess Lambdas, providing features such as “User Library”, “Import from URL”, “Upload docs/pdfs”, and read from an image using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) AI technology. * Contributed to a platform-wide project of creating centralized APIs using NodeJS, TypeScript, Firebase, and GCP to unify the backends used by the product’s various clients such as Web, Desktop, iOS, and Android applications. ### Senior Software Engineer - Engineering lead @ Famous Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area * Using ReactJs, MobX, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker, and AWS to maintain and introduce new features to Famous-Studio “a visual design software”. * Crafting deep integration with Shopify by compiling (Low Code) Famous designs into valid HTML, CSS, and JS, allowing our users to programmatically publish their designed e-commerce landing pages to Shopify stores. * Architected and executed customer entitlements system and payment gateway utilizing Stripe APIs. ### Software Engineer @ Famous Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California * Implemented asset library, providing our users with millions of assets - ready to use in their Famous designs through utilizing 3rd party stock photos and video libraries such as Unsplash and Pexels. * Implemented Collaboration and real-time communication channels using WebSockets and NodeJS. * Created a new “File Browser Interface” aiming at providing the users with an existing yet familiar native browsing experience on the web platform using ReactJS, Shuffle lib, and MobX global state manager. * Performing daily code reviews to ensure efficiency, consistency, and readability. ### Senior Software Developer @ Firewood. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area * Coding marketing software solutions for top-notch companies such as Google, YouTube, Linkedin, Mercari. * Developing an internal/External software solution aiming at further organizing the workload, more effective cooperation with localization agencies, and overall minimize the time and effort spent in each project, using React, Redux, NodeJS, and MongoDB with Jest and Enzyme for unit testing. * Crafted the styling code for the new Google Cloud Partners platform user interface using SCSS and Compass. ### Software Engineer - Front End @ Firewood. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Developing tools and software solutions for automating internal tasks using Python and JavaScript. * Working closely with the HR department for Interviewing and evaluating new team members. * Coded Data-Visualization tools to showcase profits and workload status in the form of a monthly report for the RTB program at LinkedIn. ### Front-End Software Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA * Generated > 30% increase in new photography contracts through engineering web-based showcase portfolio utilizing JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Sass. * Crafted responsive UI/UX with HTML5 and custom CSS3 media queries to ensure compatibility across 5+ major browsers and mobile devices. * Minimize HTTP requests to the PHP backend by ~75% using Angular2 and TypeScript for front-end page routing. * Optimized page speed load time by ~3 sec (down to 30ms) by using Gulp file to minify and lint frontend code. ### Independent Creative Services & Content creator @ Figaro Group & L'Orange Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Yerevan, ARM. - Designed UI and graphic content for company illustrations, advertisements, banners, menus, and websites using Adobe Photoshop CorelDraw. - Collaborated closely with the project manager to save the company > 50% on marketing budget by spearheading push towards creative social media ads away from traditional TV advertisements. ### Startups Funding Consultant @ HoReCa Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Yerevan Armenia I Helped new Ho Re Ca start up companies find their way to success, through general managing the start up time, help hiring the right talents, provide training and consultancy. * Cinnabon, Armenia :: http://cinnabon.com * The Green Bean :: https://www.facebook.com/tgbyerevan/ * Louis Charden. :: https://www.facebook.com/LouisCharden/ * Plato Wine bar :: http://www.plato.am/ * Impresso :: https://www.facebook.com/impressoyerevan/ ## Education ### Information Technology Ain Shams Academy - I.T. Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### FullStack Web Development Nano Degree in Computer Software Engineering Udacity Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahmed-soliman - Website: https://a-soliman.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ahmedsoliman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ahmedsoliman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22