1. may 4th, 1989
+20 111 29 333 92
ahmed@i25.me
linkedin.com/in/ahmedshaalan
militarily exempted
software engineer
EXPERIENCE
ACADEMICS
I am a software engineer who is passionate As I always was lured with the enrichment
about technology. I was involved in art long of user experience, getting in the handheld
before application development; now, the devices field was only logical. For the past
two are one to me. two years, I have been engaged in all
I am enthusiastic about the use of object- aspects of mobile industry; JRD sessions,
oriented principles, design patterns, and data recruitment, and prototyping all the way to
persistence normalization and optimization implementation, branding, and publishing.
in building n-tier solutions. I have also been Being the first techie in a startup, Nazzelha,
improving my skills by contributing to the really emphasized having a concrete
open source community with committing, influence over every phase from ideation to
reviewing, and documenting source code. the #1 status in digital stores.
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2. Experience
Nazzelha • Prepared app bundles, descriptions, keywords, icons,
change logs, and screenshots for App Store.
Software Engineer
• Worked with developers and designers to migrate iOS
November 2010 – Present
apps to Android, BlackBerry, and/or Web.
• Developed and maintained #1 apps with 100,000s of
users for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
• Self-taught Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, Xcode, Open Source
Interface Builder, Shark, and Dashcode and helped Software Developer
less-experienced developers through utilizing them 2007 – Present
while working on real projects. • Contributed C# and C++ code, mostly bug fixes.
• Participated in JRD sessions both internally and • Optimized applications for right-to-left languages.
with businesses; done requirements analysis; wrote • Localized applications to Arabic.
technical proposals; made presentations; researched
technologies, revenue-models, and industry-specific Graduation Project (M7)
statistics; and established timelines for potential UX Developer
projects. August 2009 – June 2010
• Wrote job-postings, recruited, and interviewed A free open source 3-tier client-server software designed
freelance and fulltime developers and designers. to automate and computerize public venues.
• Prototyped and helped delivering HIG-compliant In partnership with Chili’s and Amer Group.
graphic designs using Photoshop, Illustrator, and
• Designed interactive software prototypes via
OmniGraffle.
Expression Blend’s Sketchflow based on UML
• Modeled UML and ERD diagrams, mind maps, and
diagrams.
schemas employing Cocoa’s design patterns and
• Transformed prototypes to WPF interfaces in XAML/C#,
SOLID principles using XMind, Visual Paradigm, and
with Expression Blend and Visual Studio’s “Cider.”
Visio.
• Created bitmap and vector graphics, branding, logos,
• Used SQLite, Core Data, iCloud, and NSUserDefaults
presentations, and documentation using Expression
for data-persistence.
Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, and InCopy.
• Consumed and communicated with SOAP and RESTful
• Administrated SQL Server, Team Foundation Server,
Web services.
and Test Manager for 8 months, with record uptime.
• Parsed and manipulated HTML, XML, RSS, Atom, JSON,
YAML, and property lists.
• Integrated and customized third-party SDKs, open-
Freelance
Ethical Hacker
source projects, and static libraries like: Flurry, Google 2005 – 2007
Analytics, Xtify, Mobclix, AdWhirl, TestFlight, Twitter, • Performed penetration testing against known
Facebook, cocos2d, ASIHTTPRequest, AFNetworking, software and network weaknesses under Linux and
Three20, FMDB, and ShareKit. Windows.
• Optimized the utilization of network, memory, and • Wrote exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities in C and Perl.
CPU using ARC; disk, memory, and/or database • Deployed security frameworks like Metasploit and W3af.
caching; and multithreading (GCD and NSOperation).
• Tested and debugged apps on various devices, Freelance
simulators, locales, network conditions, and iOS Graphics Designer
versions for quality assurance. 2004 – 2007
• Configured iTunes Connect and Provisioning Portal • Designed for print and Web using Photoshop,
for In-App Purchases, iCloud, APNS, and iAd. Illustrator, Flash, and InDesign.
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3. TechnicaL
{
Frameworks
.NET: WPF (P)LINQ WF Silverlight cocos2d Mono(Touch)
Cocoa Touch: UIKit Core Data Store Kit APNS Core Animation Core Location
{
Languages
C# XAML Objective-C SQL T-SQL C C++
XML: DTD XSD XPath XSLT HTML JSON JavaScript YAML
{
RDBMS
SQL Server MySQL Office Access SQLite FireBird
Software Eng.
OOP UML Design Patterns Database Modeling/Normalization ORM
{
Multithreading Development Methodologies Prototyping/Wireframing
{
Protocols
HTTP TLS/SSL SSH POP SOAP:,WSDL,UDDI RESTful,Web,Services
Tools
{
Expression Blend+Sketchflow SQL Server Management Studio
Development
Visual-Studio LightSwitch Xcode Dashcode Instruments
Shark Dreamweaver XMLSpy Game-Salad-Creator
{
ALM
Team Foundation Server SVN Git JIRA Visual SourceSafe BugZilla
Diagraming
{ Visual-Paradigm SmartDraw Visio XMind
Photoshop Illustrator Expression Design InDesign {
Design
InCopy Flash Acrobat Fireworks
{ iWork
VMware VirtualBox Project Office
Misc.
iLife OpenOffice OmniGraffle
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