# Karim Ibrahim

> Software engineer with 10+ years of experience focusing on backend development at scale and data management

Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karimibrahim

Seeking a full time software engineer position, within a professional team that offers computer solutions and services. My goal is to utilize my academic background and computer skills in the following areas:
-Database systems, data mining, natural language processing and Hadoop infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Marqeta
Jan 2022 – Present | Oakland, California, United States
Build and maintain a webhook notification service that delivers ~ 150M messages per day
Own and lead bill pay projects from requirement gathering to delivery projecting $40-50 million of revenue within 4 years
Took the initiative to optimize the logging costs for Datadog saved $20,000 per month
Collaborate with stakeholders from various departments to understand their needs and priorities and incorporate their feedback into the project's design and development
Mentor early talent engineers and created a well-rounded onboarding plan

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hulu
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States
Build and develop payment microservices that are part of the critical path of the company to support different payment methods of Hulu’s 40+ million subscribers
Led a team of 3 developers for Comcast integration with Hulu that added ~500K new subscribers after 6 months from the go-live date.
Own revenue share project for Amazon Pay and roku pay that calculates revenue based on product bundles

### Senior Software Engineer @ Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New Albany, Ohio, United States
Work with supply chain experts to develop a vendor profile portal and approval workflow that vet the vendors before doing business with them 
Create analytical reports using Tableau that give business insights to stakeholders

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Boxborough, Massachusetts, United States
Test and release new versions of Cisco switches software used by big clients eg. att & Verizon

### Research Assistant @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Worcester, Massachusetts USA
•	Annotation Management in Scientific Databases: Expanding the functionalities of DBMS---Currently using PostgreSQL--- to improve scientists experience in utilizing the annotations.

•	Large-Scale Data Analytics: Working on improving Hadoop’s performance and enabling annotations on large-scale data. (next paper)

### Teaching assistant @ The faculty of Computer and information Cairo University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012

### Business Intelligence Developer @ ITWorx
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Egypt
-	Building data warehouse for customers and generating analytical reports for business improvement.
-	Using MS SSIS (SQL server integration services) and generate reports using MS SSRS (SQL server reporting services) & MS performance Point.

### Web developer @ American University in Cairo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
-	Creating the backend and front end of the fellowship office using Asp.net.

### NLP research developer (Summer Internship) @ Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
-	Text extraction: Using regular expressions techniques to extract abbreviations and their explanations from websites. Also, classify the goodness of a web page according to extracted features

### Developer @ Bacholar's Graduation Project
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Egypt
o	Text categorization using Support Vector Machines: Comments from readers on articles from Alzoa.com (Arabic news website) are automatically classified to output a corresponding rating/ranking for the comment to indicate how much does the reader agree with the contents of the article.
-	Role: System analyst, designer, developer
-	Technologies: Java, Perl	
-	Tools: Netbeans5.5, XEmacs-21.4.20

### Summer training @ Alzoa informatics form
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
- Habibak website: Building the frontend and backend of a website that extract all news from Alzoa news website and classify the news according to celebrities included in the site.


## Education
### Master of Science in Analytics
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

### Master's degree
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in faculty of computer science
Cairo University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karim-ibrahim-44528829

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Last updated: 2026-04-12