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I build things that scale, then write down what broke
Mohammed A. Ibrahim, senior engineer. Eight years across Rails, Go and AWS, now wrangling AI agents. Real incidents, real numbers, no hype.
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users ██████████████░░░░ 500K+ throughput ███████████████░░░░ 13× faster latency ████████████████░░ 10× lower cloud costs ████████░░░░░░░░░░ −52% bill
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2026 ████░░ 4 2025 ██░░░░ 2 2024 █████░ 5 2023 ███░░░ 3 2022 ███░░░ 3 2021 ██████ 6 2020 █░░░░░ 1
/ about
I'm Mohammed, a senior software engineer at Lufthansa Innovation Hub. I took Uptrip from MVP to 500K+ users, made it 13× faster, and cut the AWS bill by 52%. These days I build internal tooling and teach AI agents to ship code a team can actually review.
Senior Software Engineer · Feb 2022 – present
Lufthansa Innovation Hub (Germany, remote)
Lufthansa Innovation Hub (Germany, remote)
- [+]Led Uptrip's consumer platform from MVP to 500K+ users
- [+]Throughput 13×, latency 10× lower, AWS costs −52%
- [+]Built internal CLI tooling and developer platforms
- [+]Mentored 3–5 engineers and drove architecture decisions
- ai
- Claude Code, Agentic AI, Context Engineering, Automation
- backend
- Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, ExpressJS, REST, GraphQL, Laravel
- frontend
- React, Vue, TypeScript, Tailwind, Stimulus
- cloud
- AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS), Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Kamal
- data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
- lead
- Architecture design, performance tuning, mentorship, design reviews
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