Mohamed AliMay

Senior Backend Engineer / Platform Engineer

Building Cloud-Native Systems That Scale. 7+ years delivering cloud-native backend systems with measurable impact in reliability, delivery speed, and observability.

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Building reliable systems that make a difference

Senior software engineer with 7+ years delivering cloud-native backend and platform work across enterprise clients and startups. Strong hands-on expertise in Java/Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/Azure, and CI/CD, with measurable wins in delivery speed, reliability, test quality, and observability. Comfortable owning architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and taking systems from build to production operations.

Tunis, Tunisia7+ Years ExperienceBackend & Platform Engineering
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Core Strengths

Architecture & System Design

Architecture decisions & system design

CI/CD & Release Engineering

CI/CD automation & release engineering

Observability & Reliability

Observability & production reliability

Team & Delivery

Team mentoring & delivery ownership

Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Cloud-native infrastructure (K8s, IaC)

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Technical Expertise

Skills & Expertise

Technologies and tools I work with daily to build scalable systems

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Backend & Architecture

Building robust, scalable backend systems and designing clean architectures for enterprise applications.

Java
7 projects

7+ years; Spring Boot microservices across Techem/BMW/Akkurad

Spring Boot
5 projects

Upgraded 10+ services (2.7 → 3.3), Java 21 readiness

Microservices
3 projects

Modular service design, integration patterns, modernization

REST APIs
9 projects

Enterprise integrations, GraphQL, SOAP in enterprise contexts

GraphQL
1 project

Multi-service backend features with internal systems

Certified
Certification In Progress
Career Journey

Experience

My professional journey building impactful systems

Jul 2022 – Present
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MaibornWolff GmbH

Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Tunis, Tunisia

Consulting and delivery partner for enterprise/public clients; building cloud-native backend systems, automating delivery, and raising reliability through strong platform practices.

Key Impact

  • Refactored and upgraded 10+ Spring Boot services (2.7 → 3.3) to support Java 21
  • Increased automated test coverage from 50% to 85% with JUnit patterns and quality gates
  • Delivered hybrid-cloud Kubernetes platform automating production controls across 14 plants

Technologies

JavaSpring BootPythonAWSAzureKubernetes
Sep 2021 – Jun 2022
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Coffee & Brackets SARL

Senior Software Engineer

Tunis, Tunisia

Built multi-tenant back-office and CRM platforms for franchise operations; owned features, data migrations, and internal tooling.

Key Impact

  • Migrated 12M+ records from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch with automated pipelines
  • Enabled real-time analytics and improved search performance
  • Built canvas-like document editor enabling campaigns to launch 50% faster

Technologies

PHPSymfonyAngularReactPostgreSQLMySQL
Aug 2017 – Sep 2021
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Akkurad GmbH

Engineering Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Tunis, Tunisia

Built keyless access products spanning mobile, backend, and embedded systems; led architecture and delivery for a small team.

Key Impact

  • Led team of 5 engineers to ship 4+ mobile applications enabling BLE-based keyless access
  • Reduced release time by 80% by automating mobile CI/CD with Fastlane + Bitrise
  • Designed scalable architecture and shipped core marketplace flows end-to-end

Technologies

JavaSpring BootFlutterC/C++PythonBLE
Feb 2018 – Aug 2018
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Akkurad GmbH

Final Year Internship / Software Engineer

Tunis, Tunisia

Voice-controlled car project focusing on offline voice recognition.

Key Impact

  • Improved offline voice recognition robustness through noise filtering and signal-quality strategies
  • Built repeatable benchmark setups for data collection and testing scenarios

Technologies

Raspberry PiC/C++PythonPocketSphinxDocker
2015 – 2018

Freelance / Contract

Software Developer

Tunisia

Various freelance and contract engagements.

Key Impact

  • Delivered mobile app for field teams to visualize detections in real time
  • Defined structured device-to-app protocol using Protocol Buffers
  • Built real-time monitoring web app with interactive geospatial visualization

Technologies

JavaPHPPythonAngularPostgreSQL

The journey starts here...

Background

Education & Achievements

Academic background and professional recognition

Education

Dipl. Engineer degree in Software Engineering

University of Tunis, Tunisia

Equivalent to Master
2015 – 2018

Thesis: Voice-controlled car / offline voice recognition in noisy environments (embedded systems focus)

Fundamental Licence in Computer Science

University of Tunis, Tunisia

Equivalent to Bachelor
2012 – 2015

Awards & Recognition

Smart Green Island Hackathon

Mentored and coached participants in a 3-day hackathon

Gran Canaria, SpainMar 2020

MEB Robotic Competition

8th place out of 105 teams

Sivas, TurkeyMay 2018

Microsoft Imagine Cup Tunisia

2nd place out of 60 teams

Tunis, TunisiaMar 2015

Professional Memberships

Meta Developer Circle
Credentials

Certifications

Professional certifications and credentials

In Progress

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS

Expected Oct 2025
AWSCloud ArchitectureEC2S3VPC
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