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Tasneem Eltabakh, Software Engineer. Computer & Information Engineering graduate from Zewail City. I ship production backends, wire up microservices, and train ML models. Obsessed with clean architecture and the stuff that keeps systems alive under pressure.

Open to software engineering roles/ Fresh graduate
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Projects shipped, 8 hand-picked below
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Contract engineering roles
IEEE
Peer-reviewed publication
Cum Laude
cGPA 3.51, Minor GPA 3.95

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I like owning a feature end to end, from database schema to API to deployment.

As the sole backend engineer on a commercial ASP.NET Core platform, I shipped real software used by real businesses while still a student. My graduation project pushed that into microservices and reliability. I care about how systems behave under pressure, and I pick up whatever the problem needs.

Cum Laude

Graduated with honors

3.95

Minor GPA (Software Dev)

3.51

Cumulative GPA

IEEE

Published researcher

  1. 2026 – 2027Next

    London South Bank University

    M.Sc. Advanced Electrical & Electronic Engineering

    London, UK

    British Council Women in STEM Scholar

  2. 2021 – 2026

    Zewail City of Science & Technology

    B.Sc. Communications & Information Engineering

    Major in Data Science & AI + Minor in Software Applications Development

    Giza, Egypt

    Cum Laude · 75% merit scholarship (5 years)

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catwhat-i-do.md# 02

Four things I build well

Backend Engineering

  • ASP.NET Core, Node, Flask APIs
  • Schema design, auth, RBAC

Reliability & Observability

  • OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Anomaly-aware routing, autoscaling

AI / Data Systems

  • scikit-learn, LightGBM forecasting
  • Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake

DevOps & Cloud-Native

  • Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX
  • CI/CD from commit to deploy

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catexperience.md# 03

Where I've worked

My contract roles. Alongside these I've taken on plenty of freelance and task-based work.

Feb 2026 – Present

Smartly

Remote, London / Riyadh

Smart Home Platform & Automation Engineer

Designing a local-first smart-home platform on Home Assistant that keeps every home working even when the internet is down.

  • Home Assistant
  • Local-first
  • Automation
  • Dashboards

Jul 2024 – Jan 2026

Team Way

Remote, Riyadh

Backend .NET Developer

Sole backend engineer for Team Plus: built the whole ASP.NET Core backend, database, and REST APIs behind a calls, WhatsApp, and CRM platform.

  • ASP.NET Core
  • REST APIs
  • JWT
  • RBAC
  • EF Core
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023

Smartly

Remote, London / Riyadh

Full Stack Web Developer

Built an ASP.NET Razor Pages e-commerce app from Figma prototypes, including cart, discounts, and the full order flow.

  • Razor Pages
  • Bootstrap
  • ADO.NET
  • E-commerce

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catfeatured-case-study.md# 04

SmartLoad

Graduation Project, Grade A

Adaptive Load-Management Middleware

Code

A control loop that sits in front of an NGINX pool and turns traffic routing, forecasting, anomaly detection, and autoscaling into one safe, self-driving system.

250x

lower errors & tail latency during failures

1

unified control loop over a Redis bus

A

final graduation grade

The problem

A normal load balancer cannot see when a server behind it is slow or quietly failing, so it keeps sending traffic to a node that is timing out. Errors and latency spike exactly when the system is under the most pressure.

The solution

SmartLoad detects failing servers, reroutes around them, and forecasts demand to scale the pool before peaks hit. A classical load-balancer fallback keeps every automated decision safe and reversible.

Architecture

Outcomes

  • Reroutes around slow / failing servers a balancer can't detect
  • Predictive autoscaling stays ahead of traffic peaks
  • Operator console with manual overrides
  • Safe classical fallback for every decision
  • Python
  • NGINX
  • Redis
  • TimescaleDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • scikit-learn
  • Stable-Baselines3
  • Flask
  • React

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catselected-work.md# 05

Things I've built

Eight favorites out of 50+ projects: backends, microservices, big data, compilers, and ML.

01

ClipSphere

Full-stack short-video platform

  • Uploads, feeds, reviews, and admin moderation
  • JWT + RBAC, Zod validation, MinIO presigned media
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • MinIO
  • Docker
02

Spotify Million Playlist Analytics

Big-data pipeline over 2.2M+ tracks

  • Bronze / Silver / Gold Delta Lake with a star schema
  • Streamlit dashboards and a co-occurrence recommender
  • Spark
  • Databricks
  • AWS S3
  • Delta Lake
  • Streamlit
03

Microservices Video Platform

Event-driven streaming in Go

  • OAuth2, API gateway, and rate limiting
  • Kafka events, Redis cache, circuit breakers
  • Go
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenSearch
04

Parallel & Distributed Computing

Sequential vs. MPI vs. Hadoop

  • Benchmarked 2M+ records three ways
  • MPI scatter / reduce and a Hadoop MapReduce cluster
  • C
  • MPI
  • Java
  • Hadoop
  • Docker
05

Go-Like Language Compiler

Front-to-back compiler with IR

  • Lexer, parser, symbol table, type checking
  • Quadruple intermediate code generation
  • Lex
  • Yacc
  • C
06

Spatio-Temporal Traffic Forecasting

Deep learning vs. classical models

  • ConvLSTM / 3D-CNN forecast over a city grid
  • Benchmarked against Prophet and XGBoost
  • Python
  • Keras
  • ConvLSTM
  • 3D-CNN
  • XGBoost

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catresearch.md# 06

Published work

IEEE ICCTA 2024DOI 10.1109/ICCTA64612.2024.10974782

Quality of AI-Generated vs. Human-Generated Code

T. M. Eltabakh, N. N. Soudi, D. Shawky

34th Intl. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications, pp. 200–205.

IEEE Xplore

visitor@tasneem:~/portfolio$ catrecognition.md# 07

Awards & honors

2026

British Council Women in STEM Scholarship

British Council

A competitive, fully-funded international scholarship awarded on academic merit to a small cohort of high-achieving women in STEM.

  • Fully funded
  • International
  • Merit-based
2026

Graduated Cum Laude

Zewail City of Science & Technology

B.Sc. with honors: cumulative GPA 3.51 and a 3.95 GPA in the Software Development minor, at an ABET-accredited university.

  • Cum Laude
  • cGPA 3.51
  • Minor GPA 3.95
2021 – 2026

Merit Scholarship, Zewail City

Zewail City of Science & Technology

A 75% merit-based scholarship covering tuition across the full five-year undergraduate program, earned and renewed on academic performance every year.

  • 75% tuition
  • Merit-based
  • 5 years
May 2026

Solship Energy AI Hackathon, 3rd Place

Solship Energy

Load forecasting with LightGBM plus a linear-programming battery controller (PuLP, HiGHS) that plans a day ahead to cut the electricity bill.

  • LightGBM
  • PuLP
  • HiGHS
  • Optimization

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Tech I work with

Backend

  • ASP.NET Core
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • REST
  • JWT
  • RBAC

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • TimescaleDB
  • MongoDB
  • SQL Server
  • EF Core
  • SQLAlchemy

DevOps / Reliability

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • NGINX
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Redis

AI / Data

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • LightGBM
  • Pandas
  • Spark
  • Databricks
  • Delta Lake

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • Razor Pages

Languages

  • Python
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • C
  • Java
  • SQL

Let's build something

I'm looking for my first full-time software engineering role. If you're hiring, I'd love to talk.

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