About
Hardware taught me constraints. Banking taught me consequences.
Youssef Eldemery is a Software Engineer at Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt, where he builds digital-banking features end to end.
I studied Electronics & Communications Engineering at Misr International University, specialising in Smart Systems. That meant circuits and signal theory before it meant software — and it is the reason I still think about latency, power and memory before I think about frameworks.
My graduation project was a wearable that ran a convolutional neural network on a Raspberry Pi to describe a room to someone who could not see it. Getting a detection model to run usefully on that hardware taught me the thing I have relied on since: the interesting part of engineering is almost always the constraint, not the feature.
I now build digital-banking features at CIB Egypt — Apple Pay activation, instant card issuance, real-time deposit redemption, mutual-fund trading. Banking is where I learned consequences. A bug in a side project is an inconvenience; a bug in a payment flow is someone's money.
A thread I keep pulling
Three projects, one group of people
My graduation project, then EchoGuide, then RescueTap — three years, three separate builds, all for people whose environment does not accommodate them. That was not a plan. I kept returning to it because it is the only kind of engineering where the constraint and the purpose are the same thing.
The detail I am proudest of is not technical. EchoGuide is a cap. The camera is the only visible component and the wiring is sewn into the fabric, because a device that announces its wearer as impaired is a device people leave at home.
Stack
What I work with
Grouped by what it is for, not by how well I know it. Proficiency bars measure nothing — the projects are the evidence.
- Frontend
Interfaces for banking portals, storefronts and mobile apps.
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- React Native
- Tailwind CSS
- Zustand
- TanStack Query
- TanStack Router
- Backend
Services and APIs behind digital-banking features.
- Node.js
- NestJS
- REST API design
- API documentation
- Data & Infrastructure
Where the data lives and how the code gets shipped.
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- CI/CD
- Vercel
- AWS fundamentals
- HCIA Cloud Computing
- AI & Computer Vision
Detection models that run on low-power hardware, not in a datacentre.
- Python
- TensorFlow
- TensorFlow Lite
- Keras
- PyTorch
- OpenCV
- scikit-learn
- NumPy
- Pandas
- CNNs
- SSD MobileNet
- Product & Analysis
The half of the job that happens before any code is written.
- Requirements gathering
- Functional & technical specs
- User stories
- Agile & Scrum
- UAT
- Stakeholder communication
- Process improvement
- Jira
- Hardware & IoT
Where I learned that constraints are the whole problem.
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Arduino
- STM32
- MPU-6050 / I2C
- GPIO
- Twilio WhatsApp API
- gpsd
- Shapr3D
- LEGO Education
Currently learning
- Machine Learning — NTI (In progress)
Certifications
- HCIA Cloud Computing — NTI (Nov 2024)
- AWS Cloud Computing — Self-directed (Nov 2024)
- Network+ — Self-directed (Dec 2024)
- CCNA — WE (Jul 2020)
Recognition
Awards, and where to check them
Every award below that can be independently verified links out to its source.
Competitions
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention — Mobility Impairments
Build2gether 2.0 Inclusive Innovation Challenge, ETH Zurich ·
Awarded for RescueTap, an emergency alert system that sends a caregiver the user's GPS location on a single tap or on automatic fall detection.
VerifyTop 1%
Top 1% of 664 global participants
Build2gether 2.0 Inclusive Innovation Challenge, ETH Zurich ·
Recognised in the top 1% of the field, with prizes from Nordic Semiconductor and ETH Zurich.
VerifyLucky Draw
Lucky Draw for two submissions
Build2gether 2.0 Inclusive Innovation Challenge, ETH Zurich ·
Awarded alongside EchoGuide, a wearable that describes surroundings to visually impaired users through real-time object detection and audio feedback.
Verify
Academic
Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor thesis distinction
Misr International University ·
Awarded for “Enabling Real-Time Navigation Through Convolutional Neural Networks”, a smart assistive system for visually impaired users.
Scholarship
Excellence Scholarship
Misr International University ·
Merit scholarship awarded for academic performance.
Leadership
1st Place
1st place among Mediterranean countries
Rotary Peace 2025 ·
Awarded to Rotaract Cairo New Capital during my term as President.
2nd Place
2nd place — Egypt Community Service Awards
Rotary International, Egypt ·
Awarded for leading Project Able.
3rd Place
3rd place among Mediterranean countries
U.S.-led International Rotary competition on the SDGs ·
Awarded for the chapter's work against the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Beyond code
Teaching, and organisations I built
I co-founded a Rotaract chapter and led it for three years, and I run a campaign that surfaces scholarships and jobs for Egyptian youth. Both ran alongside full-time engineering.
- 130+
- Students taught
- 100+
- Orphans in the leadership programme
- 90+
- Opportunities placed for young people
- 10,000+
- People served at Ramadan events
- 30+
- Robots built with students
Teaching robotics is the reason I can write a spec a non-engineer can read. If you can explain a control loop to a ten-year-old, explaining an API contract to a product owner stops being difficult.
Education
B.Sc. Electronics & Communications Engineering
Smart Systems · Misr International University
Cairo, Egypt · Graduated Jul 2023 · GPA 3.12 / 4.00
Bachelor thesis: Enabling Real-Time Navigation Through Convolutional Neural Networks — awarded a Summa Cum Laude distinction.
Contact
Have a problem worth solving?
I'm open to Software Engineer and Product Engineer roles — remote, or relocating. Based in Cairo, EET (UTC+2).