joseph-makram — ~/portfolio — zsh
1#!/usr/bin/env backend-engineer
2
3whoami() {
4  

Joseph Makram

5  echo "Senior Backend Engineer, 5+ yrs — Cairo, Egypt"
6}
7
8/**
9 * Designs and scales large-scale systems — production services
10 * at Salla. Fluent in PHP, Laravel, Golang, Node.js, MySQL, Redis,
11 * Docker. Leads code review, mentors engineers, and keeps prod
12 * healthy with Graylog, Grafana, Sentry, Cloudflare and CI/CD.
13 */
14
15const honors = "Top 55 StackOverflow users, Egypt · 2024";
17// ── experience.log ──────────────────────────
18

Where the commits happened

20function seniorBackendEngineer("Salla E-commerce Platform") {
// Aug 2023 – present · Saudi Arabia
  • Designed backend solutions for catalog and order management, optimizing Excel import/export to handle 50,000+ records per batch at 98% accuracy, cutting processing time by 25%.
  • Led file-handling optimization, reducing memory consumption by 30% while managing datasets up to 500MB.
  • Own code review and PR approval for the team, enforcing standards and mentoring on backend best practices and system design.
  • Maintain production health and deploy reliability via Graylog, Grafana, Sentry, Cloudflare and CI/CD.
21}
23function backendDeveloper("Valley App") {
// Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · Saudi Arabia
  • Built a reservation system for apartments, villas and other units, handling 100+ simultaneous reservations and cutting booking conflicts by 30%.
  • Shipped a rental management system with automated contracts and payment tracking; added unit tests to legacy services, raising coverage by 25%.
  • Rolled out new features that lifted customer retention by 15%.
24}
26function backendDeveloper("Fritill") {
// Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · Egypt
  • Refactored two legacy codebases — payment service and e-wallet — using TDD to improve maintainability.
  • Restructured core functionality for faster execution and better resource efficiency.
  • Hardened the codebase for future integrations and feature growth.
27}
29// ── skills.json ─────────────────────────────
30

Stack & tooling

32{
33  "languages":
PHPGolangJavaScriptNode.jsSQLNoSQL
34  "frameworks":
LaravelGraphQLAPI design
35  "data":
MySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchRabbitMQ
36  "infra":
DockerKubernetesNginxCloudflareCI/CD
37  "observability":
GraylogGrafanaSentry
38  "fundamentals":
System DesignMicroservicesData StructuresAlgorithms
39}
41## education.md
42

Education

Higher Technological Institute — B.Sc. Computer Science
GPA 3.31 · Graduated Jul 2021 · 10th of Ramadan, Egypt
Top 55 StackOverflow users from Egypt
2024
45// ── contact.txt ─────────────────────────────
46

Let's ship something

✉ joseph.makram350@gmail.com ☎ +20 122 896 7279 ⚭ LinkedIn ◆ GitHub ◈ Stack Overflow
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