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Kareem Elbahrawy
Staff / Principal Software Engineer
Agentic AI · Developer Platforms · Telecom Automation · Product Infrastructure
// Sydney, Australia
I turn ambiguous, infrastructure-heavy problems into reliable products and platforms — spanning architecture, implementation, operations, and developer experience. Currently building telecom automation at 1GLOBAL.
// Work
- › Independently shipped AI-native products — Hiveryn and Litho, end to end.
- › Production platform and reliability leadership at scale.
- › Programmable telecom testing and automation.
// Experience
Network Automation
Aug 2025 - Present
- › Leading programmable telecom test automation: VoLTE UE scenarios across SIP, RTP and GTP
- › Built carrier-core network testing with distributed load orchestration
- › End-to-end PCRF policy automation with Kafka-based CDR capture and validation
- › Scenario-driven CI so network changes ship with evidence, not hope
IoT & Data Platform
Apr 2024 - Aug 2025
- › Built data aggregation system reducing overall system load by 26%
- › Designed event-driven architectures for high-throughput data processing
- › Owned reliability and scaling of data pipelines and query performance
- › Mentoring engineers and building Sydney engineering capability
- › Owned DevOps and deployment strategy for AUTO1's micro-frontend platform
- › Implemented comprehensive monitoring and observability systems
- › Kept the frontend platform stable and fast while teams shipped on top of it
- › Migrated backend services to Kubernetes on AWS EKS with Terraform
- › Built Lambda@Edge functions and automated Cloudflare Workers deployments
- › Implemented GraphQL caching layers and improved microservices communication
- › CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
- › Led the frontend Site Reliability Engineering team
- › Introduced the micro-frontend framework powering autohero.com
- › Built Real User Monitoring and CI/CD improvements that materially cut deployment time
- › Drove performance and reliability work across AUTO1's microservice estate
- › Established incident-response practices that made outages shorter and rarer
- › Built core frontend infrastructure powering AUTO1's consumer and dealer products across Europe
- › Established testing culture and raised coverage substantially
// About
I wrote my first line of code at 14, after my dad introduced me to programming. It started with Flash and ActionScript - physics games built on Box2D, dozens of them. At 17 I helped build a C# and SQL system for a library in my hometown. By then I was making money building websites.
I studied Computer Engineering at Port Said University while freelancing as a web developer. Built products for clients across the world, including Black Crows - a ski brand that became my main income. PHP, databases, Node.js, Angular - whatever the project needed.
In 2017, I moved to Berlin to start my first corporate job at AUTO1. That's where everything changed. I met people who reshaped how I think, started questioning things I'd never questioned, and discovered hiking. Mountains became my spiritual practice - Georgia, Nepal, the Alps. There's something about altitude that strips away the noise.
Now I'm at 1GLOBAL, building telecom automation, based in Sydney, Australia - the newest chapter.
Port Said University
Computer Engineering
Berlin
AUTO1
1GLOBAL
Telecom automation
Sydney, Australia
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// Skills
// Contact
Discuss platform, AI or telecom engineering
The fastest way to reach me is email.