Mohamed Ashour

Senior Software Engineer | Data-Intensive Systems, Cloud & ML Infrastructure

Luxembourg, Luxembourg | m.aly.ashour@gmail.com | blog.m-ashour.space

linkedin.com/in/malyashour | github.com/Mohammed-Ashour

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building data-intensive systems, distributed processing pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and ML-enabled applications. Experienced in architecting systems for satellite and Earth observation data, real-time processing, and scientific workloads, and in translating scientific and product requirements into reliable production software. Strong background in Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Airflow, Postgres, and Infrastructure as Code.

Professional Experience

Senior Data Engineer | Hydrosat

Jul 2025 - Present

• Lead architecture and development of satellite imagery processing pipelines, from ingestion and scientific processing through quality control and delivery. Translate requirements from Data Science and Product into service boundaries and engineering milestones.
• Design distributed processing on AWS with Airflow, Kubernetes, SQS, and Postgres, with workload scaling, retries, failure isolation, and reprocessing to support reliable pipeline operation.
• Package scientific models as versioned Python libraries, separating model logic from orchestration and infrastructure to improve testability and reuse across workflows.
• Define pipeline observability and data-quality checks using processing metadata, correlation identifiers, metrics, and lineage to trace data across processing stages.

Technologies: Python, AWS, Airflow, Kubernetes, SQS, Postgres, Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, GDAL, Rasterio

Software Engineer | Spire Global

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025

• Designed and implemented real-time data processing systems for GNSS-R and GNSS-RO satellite data, meeting strict latency and reliability requirements for customers including NASA, NOAA, and EUMETSAT.
• Led engineering for an ML-based sea ice detection system, collaborating with scientists from initial experimentation through production deployment.
• Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by approximately $250K annually through architecture and infrastructure optimization.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code for scalable and reliable cloud deployments.

Technologies: Python, Go, AWS, Docker, Postgres, Terraform, DynamoDB, Jenkins

Software Engineer | Yaoota

Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

• Built and maintained web-scraping and data-processing pipelines for collecting, extracting, and enriching product data.
• Developed ML and NLP components and contributed to Kipp, the primary scraping platform, and Case, an internal NLP and data-processing library.

Technologies: Python, NLP, Redis, Docker, Scrapy

Software Engineer | Egyptian Air Force

Oct 2018 - Oct 2020

Official military title: Software Specialized Officer

• Developed and maintained internal software systems and database-backed applications for multiple departments.

Technologies: C#, Oracle Database

Software Engineer | Elements Financial Technologies

Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

• Developed backend components for a Payment Gateway as a Service supporting online payment processing for business customers.

Technologies: Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, AWS

Freelance Python Developer | Self-Employed

Jan 2017 - Mar 2020

• Delivered web-scraping, data-processing, and machine-learning solutions for clients.

Technologies: Python, Selenium, Scikit-learn

Software Engineering Intern | Codescalers - Egypt

Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

• Built internal dashboards for monitoring cloud infrastructure.

Technologies: Python, Flask

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python, Go, SQL
• Data & Distributed Systems: Apache Airflow, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, SQS, event-driven pipelines
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu
• CI/CD & Reliability: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, automated testing, observability
• ML & Geospatial Computing: Scikit-learn, NumPy, GDAL, Rasterio, production ML systems

Education

B.Sc. in Computer & Systems Engineering | Mansoura University, Egypt

2012 - 2017

Technical Writing & Education

• Blog: blog.m-ashour.space - Writing about software engineering, data systems, and machine learning.
• YouTube: youtube.com/@mohammedashour1994 - Educational content covering Python, machine learning, and data science.
• Experience in technical mentoring and teaching software engineering and data-related topics.