Loay Mahmoud

Where I've worked

Most of my work has been at small teams where engineers talk to customers directly. Newest first.

1. 2026 – now

   Research Assistant

   Indiana University Indianapolis, CyberWater project

   I work with the researchers and Ph.D. students at IU and Pitt who use CyberWater, a scientific workflow app. I'm modernizing its server, APIs, and auto-update system and turning their feedback into fixes.

2. 2025 – 2026

   Senior Software Engineer

   MNT-Halan, Giza, Egypt

   • Built FinTech ERP modules for accounting, payments, and reporting.
   • Took requirements from the accounting team and Odoo implementation partners.
   • Led an Odoo migration that made core financial workflows 5x faster, and prototyped MCP servers for internal LLM tools.

   Python, Odoo, Elixir/Phoenix, JavaScript
3. 2022 – 2026

   Teaching Assistant

   Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

   • Taught tutorials and labs for three years across Software Engineering, OOP, Compilers, Advanced Databases, Computer Modeling, and Algorithms.
   • Created new labs, exercises, and quizzes, and mentored student teams through semester-long software projects.
   • It's where I learned to explain technical work to anyone, which I now use in every client meeting and demo.
4. 2024 – 2025

   Software Engineer II

   VCloud LLC, Nevada, USA (remote)

   • Product engineer on VOCCS, an omnichannel contact center used by hundreds of agents.
   • Ran weekly client meetings, demoed new features, and showed the product to prospective clients' sales and technical teams.
   • Built call routing on Twilio and AWS Connect, refactored the backends into modular services, and set up CI/CD.

   Node.js, Python, Laravel, React, Twilio, AWS Connect, GCP
5. 2022 – 2024

   Software Engineer

   Keepoala, Munich, Germany (remote)

   • Worked directly with the CTO and CFO on a returns dashboard and loyalty app for online shoppers.
   • Helped nearly triple the user base, shipping features across backend and frontend.
   • Built Shopify and Billbee integrations, moved the database from Firestore to PostgreSQL, and moved deployments to AWS.
   • Added a backend testing framework with Mocha and Sinon, and Redis caching for the shop plugins.

   TypeScript, Node.js, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, AWS ECS
6. 2024

   Short engagements

   Turing (USA) and Pleny (Dubai), remote

   Trained LLMs and AI agents on code-interpreter tasks for a MAANG company at Turing. Fixed data bugs and validation jobs to unblock Pleny's app launch.

7. 2020 – 2022

   Where I started

   Internships and freelance work in Egypt

   • Built the Accounts Management feature of the My Vodafone app with the Android core team at _VOIS.
   • Built a Flutter and Firebase field app, on my own, for the Ministry of Water Resources' site engineers.
   • Moved Master Micro's CI pipeline to Jenkins, and built backend and mobile features for NajahNow.

What I want to do next

I don't want my Ph.D. to pull me away from real products. I'd like each to make the other better.

What I work with

Working with people

Client meetings and demos, requirements, feature scoping, teaching and presenting

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Elixir, PHP, Dart, C++, Java

Frameworks

React, Next.js, Node.js, Nest.js, Phoenix, Odoo, Laravel, FastAPI, Flutter

Data

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Redis

Cloud

AWS Certified Developer – Associate. ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, Connect, GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions

Integrations

Twilio, Shopify, Billbee, Sendinblue, MCP