Ahmad Sameh — Software Engineer (Ads Risk & ML)
I build reliable, high-scale systems. I ship ML pipelines and tools that turn noisy signals into crisp decisions.
Edinburgh, UK — open to sponsorship- Scale
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Experience
Amazon — AdRisk (Ads Risk)
Software Development Engineer II (L5)
Edinburgh, UK
Apr 2024 – Present
- Reduced manual review time from 4 minutes to 30 seconds through automated UI improvements
- Automated 70%+ of signature reviews processing 1,000+ signatures weekly with reduced false positives
- Deployed production ML for threat analysis at 100K+ pages per day scale
- Resolved 2 major OpenSearch outages and managed 50+ incident RCAs with cross-stack monitoring
- Accelerated compliance onboarding from hours to seconds across FCA, Spain, and Turkey jurisdictions
Microsoft — Clarity for Mobile Apps
Software Development Engineer II
Cairo, Egypt
Jul 2022 – Mar 2024
- Built tool to inject Clarity Mobile SDK into any installed test app, cutting deploy/test from hours to ~3 minutes; ~40% fewer release bugs.
- Developed Google Play analysis tool to download & statically analyze APKs (API levels, libraries, market share), processing ~40% of the store.
- Shipped SDK features: sensitive-data masking, asset compression, complex gesture collection.
Incorta — Engine Team
Software Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
Apr 2020 – Jun 2022
- Implemented core structure for Schema Update Revamp; fixed ~40% in-dev bugs and ~30% post-release.
- Built calculation-formula testing pipeline that preemptively caught 1 fatal, 4 critical, and 36 minor bugs.
Affectiva — Platform Team
Data Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
Aug 2019 – Apr 2020
- Optimized ingestion/processing pipelines (runtime −60%); created 'Data-Split' tool (prep time −40%).
- Cleaned central DB (query −20%, storage −50%); built utilities for visualization/analysis.
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Teaching Assistant
Cairo, Egypt
Sep 2020 – Jun 2022
- Revamped Big Data Analytics projects with real-world datasets (LoL, Reddit, Twitter).
- Helped stand up a high-performance distributed computing lab; assisted Big Data Analytics & Computer Vision courses.
Skills
Programming
JavaPythonC#Node.jsKotlinSQL
Backend
ASP.NETSpringFlaskExpress
Cloud/DevOps
AWSAzureDockerTerraformJenkins
Data
SparkHadoopHDFSPresto
Frontend
React
Projects
🎮 Games
Game development projects including Squickers (playable with trailer) and Belladonna.
UnityC#Game Design
View Games →🎸 Guitar
Custom guitar builds, electronics, and hardware modifications.
HardwareElectronicsDesign
View Builds →Education
B.E. in Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Sep 2014 – Jul 2019
Contact
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