Ahmed Thabet – Engineering Manager

Ahmed Thabet

@xmonader · (+20) 1143344150 · [email protected]

Engineering Manager with 10+ years building decentralized cloud infrastructure, custom operating systems, and developer platforms — from bare-metal OS design to Kubernetes orchestration at scale.

Experience

Codescalers: Engineering Manager (2023 – Present) Managing multiple engineering teams building the Threefold Grid, a decentralized P2P cloud spanning thousands of nodes across 60+ countries. Own technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, hiring, and mentoring across the full stack — from a custom Linux-based OS to SDKs, Terraform providers, and web dashboards.
Codescalers: Software Development Team Lead (2020 – 2023) Led development of the Jumpscale cloud framework, the 3Bot virtual system administrator, and the Virtual Data Center platform. Drove system architecture, hands-on development, code quality, and on-time delivery.
Codescalers: Software Engineer (2016 – 2020) Designed and built cloud tooling for VM lifecycle management, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
Otlob.com: Data Analyst (Freelance) Built audio fingerprinting pipeline over large-scale video datasets to measure marketing campaign reach.
Orascom Telecom: Web Developer (Freelance) Built an internal PHP/CodeIgniter application for server room environmental monitoring, replacing manual Excel workflows.

Key Projects

Operating Systems & Core Infrastructure

Zero-OS: Leading development of the custom Linux-based OS powering the entire Threefold Grid (Go)
ContentHive: Content-addressed storage system inspired by IPFS (Go)
0-Disk: Network Block Device server with pluggable storage backends (Tarantool, Lua)
OpenVCloud: Monitoring, alerting, and hardware health-check tooling for a libvirt-based cloud platform (Python)

Platforms & Developer Tools

KubeCloud: Highly available Kubernetes platform on the Threefold Grid (Go, Vue.js, PostgreSQL)
VDC: Virtual Data Center — managed Kubernetes clusters, S3 storage, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring (Python, Stellar, Ansible)
VDC Marketplace: One-click application deployment marketplace on top of VDC
AIBroker: AI gateway aggregating multiple LLM providers with MCP server integration (Rust, Go)
Terraform Provider: Infrastructure-as-Code plugin for provisioning on the Threefold Grid (Go)
TFRobot: Mass-deployment tool for large VM fleets (Go)
Gridify: Heroku-like deploy tool for the Threefold Grid (Go)
Farmerbot: Power-management and operations automation for grid farmers (Go)

SDKs & Frameworks

Go SDK: Primary SDK enabling delivery of multiple grid-based projects (Go)
TypeScript SDK: Web developer SDK for Threefold Grid integration (TypeScript)
JS-NG / JS-SDK: Cloud automation framework and Threebot application server (Python, Gevent)
EWF: Embeddable workflow framework for resilient, stateful multi-step processes (Go)
CRM: CRM system for Threefold Token Foundation (Python, Flask, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
publishingtools: Web publishing framework for wikis, blogs, and websites (Crystal, Kemal, Svelte)

Infrastructure Tooling

AYS: Agentless Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration — event systems, background tasks, and service templates
Go farmer: Cross-platform GUI for farm management (Go, Fyne)
Additional: OAuth provider for Gogs, DMIDecode parser, GitHub–Gogs sync, documentation generators for Jumpscale

Open Source Projects

tcprouter: TCP router with SNI-based routing (Go)
tfgateway: Threefold gateway built on tcprouter and CoreDNS Redis plugin
coredns-redis: Redis plugin for CoreDNS
raqeeb: PID 1 replacement and advanced alternative to Foreman
pygundb: GUN.js database server and client (Python)
pyparsec: Parser combinator library for Python
python-sonic-client: Python client for Sonic search backend
python-pcre: PCRE bindings for Python using ctypes
flask_itsyouonline: OAuth2 middleware for Flask
nim-servy: Web framework for Nim
nim-redisclient: Redis client and parser for Nim
nim-assets: Bundle assets into a single Nim binary
vscode-capnp: Cap’n Proto extension for VS Code
helloED: Pluggable, fast PyGTK text editor
stellargui: Lightweight Stellar blockchain wallet
Pida IDE: Contributed RegexToolkit and Pastebin plugins
raml2spore: Generate SPORE clients from RAML specifications

Publications / Translations

Nim Days: Practical applications and libraries in Nim
Python: Extensive Guide
Introduction to Ruby
Translations: PyQt4, PyGTK, Mono IronPython, and Cairo tutorials translated into Arabic

Skills & Technologies

Languages: Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript, C, Nim, Crystal, Bash
Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB
Infrastructure: Linux, Kubernetes, K3s, Helm, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, CoreDNS, Nginx, Traefik
APIs & Protocols: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Cap’n Proto
Frontend: Vue, Svelte, React

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
English: Business proficiency