About

Hi, I'm Mohamed Madian. I'm a software engineer based in Bothell, WA with a passion for building reliable and scalable systems.

I specialize in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and backend development. When I'm not writing code, you can find me exploring new technologies, contributing to open source, or writing about my experiences.

Bothell, WA

Experience

Software Development Engineer - Cognito

Apr 2022 - Present
Amazon Web Services Seattle, WA

AWS Cognito - Identity and User Management Service

  • Designed, implemented, and deployed user-activity event streaming for threat protection; built the ManagedLoginBranding CloudFormation integration
  • Built AWS WAF Console workflows to integrate Cognito with WAF (attach and manage web ACLs and rules)
  • Re-architected Token/ASF services to a cloud-native platform, serving production traffic in 27+ AWS regions
  • Built anomaly-detection (stream + real-time scoring) to identify automated sign-in abuse, reducing bot attempts
  • Extended advanced security feature coverage across Cognito data-plane APIs (sign-in, sign-up)

Software Development Engineer - SNS

Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Amazon Web Services Seattle, WA

Simple Notification Service - Pub/Sub Messaging and Mobile Notifications

  • Launched an SNS SMS Sandbox that protects customers from phishing, spam, and malware via allow-listing, sender verification, and rate/volume caps; fully supported via APIs, CLI, SDK, and Console
  • Co-built the AWS Amplify and AWS Cognito integration with the SNS SMS Sandbox
  • Built a cloud-native service mapping SNS GL records to country ledgers with validation & audit/reconciliation
  • Mitigated confused-deputy in SMS usage reports and hardened the SNS Console and SetSMSAttributes control-plane API with stricter security validation

Software Development Engineer - EBS

Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Amazon Web Services Seattle, WA

Elastic Block Store - Cloud Block Storage

  • Built a self-service platform provisioning Redash and Grafana, enabling internal EBS customers to create and manage dashboards on real-time and historical data for large-scale events

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Amazon Seattle, WA

Customer Order workflows (COW-Fulfillment)

  • Designed and launched a fulfillment service centralizing Amazon order-fulfillment logic with standardized APIs across all Amazon retail websites; supports ~20M orders/day
  • Maintained the purchase tax & charge engine with sub-100 ms p95 and ≤200 ms p99; improved API reliability and accuracy; met 99.95% availability

Software Engineer

Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Alexandria, Egypt

Digital Assets Factory (DAF) Team

  • Built a Java scheduling, multi-threaded reactive service to generate book thumbnails for digital cataloging
  • Built a companion monitoring module tracking Hadoop/HDFS storage with MySQL thresholds and email notifications

Software Engineer

Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
ZK Technology Alexandria, Egypt

Message Middleware, Device Management, and Device Adapter

  • Designed reactive message-oriented middleware on RabbitMQ with fan-out APIs for systems/devices/groups
  • Built a Scala admin console for RabbitMQ monitoring and CRUD (exchanges, queues, bindings, policies)
  • Built a Scala console and Java backend for device management; integrated MOM to decouple commands
  • Built Node.js device-control APIs (attendance logs, user CRUD) using normalized schemas and whitelisting
  • Implemented Java business-layer firmware translators with common interface and Scala frontend integration
  • Delivered Scala frontend with RBAC toggles and audit trails for device/firmware translator management

Software Engineer

Mar 2013 - Nov 2014
Ejada Cairo, Egypt

General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)

  • Led design and launch of a Java billing platform with Oracle DB PL/SQL engine integrated with Oracle AR and IATA SIS
  • Cut invoice cycle time 42% and processed 120K invoices/month across 38 carriers in a market of 110+ airlines

Get in Touch

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities, collaborations, or just want to say hi. Feel free to reach out!

Email

[email protected]

Location

Bothell, WA 98021

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