Hey, I'm Mena,
Software engineer across web apps, infrastructure and security for 10 years. I like building clean, secure, quietly reliable systems. I write to think clearly, and share what I learn here.
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Company B
Full-time · 3 yrs
Software Engineer
Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo
Egypt
Built and maintained payments services used across the product.
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Company C
Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos
Software Engineer
Jan 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos
Egypt
Full-stack work on internal tooling and customer dashboards.
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Company D
Internship · 6 mos
Software Engineering Intern
Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 · 6 mos
Egypt
First taste of shipping real software with a team.
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Explaining distributed consensus to my younger self
Raft without the jargon — leaders, terms, and why majority matters.
On slowing down to go further
Notes on sustainable pace, deep work, and a decade of shipping software.
Walkthrough: profiling a slow API endpoint
A 20-minute recorded session tracing latency from flame graph to fix.