I’m an entrepreneur, open source evangelist, a technology guy interested in everything engineering!. I’m also married to my lovely wife Sinar and currently living in Egypt, a country I’m proud of being part of.

I’ve been in the IT industry since 2001 and recently I co-founded Cloud Niners Ltd. Also founder of noZom.org, It all started when I was in high school and things just kept going and evolving, and here I am.

Ah, I almost forgot. I’m currently working on my masters degree of Computer science and Systems Engineering.

Awards

• 1999/2000 1st Award of “Egyptian Ministry of Education” competition for students among Egyptian schools for the two years.
• 2001 ThinkQuest Semifinalist. a Website with the name “History Of The Holy Jerusalem”.
• 2001 Certification of Excellence in High School from The Egyptian Engineers Syndication for score 97.5%.
• 2002 1st Award in Egypt Ministry Of High Education (youth Week in Assiut) in programming.
• 2008 The Most Effective and Creative founder in CATReloaded (Computer Assistance Team in Mansoura University).

Programming Languages and Technologies

1. C/C++, GNU C, *Nix programming
2. Python 2.x/3.x
3. PHP4/5
4. OCaml, Lisp
5. Java J2SE, GWT, GWT-Ext, Scala, Groovy
6. Design Patterns
7. Shell Scripting (Bash/Korn/Bourne)
8. SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Tokyocabinet, TokyoTyrant, Flare
9. XML/XSLT/XPath/DOM/SAX/HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript

Certifications

• 2003 Red Hat Certified Technician, Redhat Linux 9
• 2004 Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHEL 3
• 2007 Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 5

Presentations and Seminars

• 2003 Windows vs. Linux
• 2004 The Open Source Approach
• 2005 Linux Installation Festival
• 2006 XML And Related Technologies
• 2006 SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)
• 2006 Leadership
• 2007 Secure Shell - SSH
• 2007 Get That Job (CV, Interviews)
• 2007 Web 2.0
• 2008 Introduction To Algorithms
• 2010 Geniuses are made, not born
• 2011 Introduction to Cloud Computing
• 2011 iPhone vs. Android

Open Source Contributions

• Mozilla ReMo in Egypt
• Fedora Ambassador in Egypt.
• Wine (Windows Emulator) Arabic Support. (C++)
• Mplayer Arabic Subtitles Hack. (C++)
• Anti-NetCut 2 For Linux - Python.
• cppThreads (C++ Wrapper of POSIX Threading) (Project Lead) - C++
• SCMP (Scalable Community Messaging Platform) (Project Lead) - Java
• Thread-Safe Red-Black Trees Implementation in C++ (Highly Generic, Highly Efficient)
• Web2py enterprise python web development framework. (patching and bug fixing) (Python)
• j25 framework (Python)

Social Activities

• Founder of CAT Reloaded
• Founder of noZom IT NGO

if you are interested in my resume, kindly contact me on me [at] ahmedsoliman.com