🐢Ahmed Elghareeb
Senior Backend Engineer · ClimateBase Fellow
Building Switzerland's digital identity infrastructure at EPFL's Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). Experimenting with cutting-edge standards for digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and privacy-preserving technologies.
Beyond code, I'm passionate about climate tech and sustainable IT. As a Climatebase Fellow, I explore the intersection of technology and sustainability in energy, transportation, and agriculture. Currently leading a Sustainable IT working group at EPFL.
💼 Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), EPFL
- E-ID (Digital Identity Infrastructure In Switzerland): Experimenting with cutting-edge standards and technologies for Digital Identities, digital wallets, and verifiable credentials.
- Predictive Maintenance (Private Multi-party ML): Using modern ML privacy technology including Homomorphic Encryption and Decentralized Learning on neural networks.
- Working in a research environment, reading papers and specifications, and building proof-of-concepts in various programming languages.
Climate Fellow - Cohort 6
Climatebase
- Investigated multiple domains with a focus on climate aspects, particularly energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors.
- Working with ClimateRoboticsNetworks non-profit organization.
- Started a working group on Sustainable IT at EPFL, sponsored by the Research Software Engineering community.
Senior Software Engineer
Back Market
- Built cloud-based, scalable systems at one of the biggest startups in France.
- Worked with AWS infrastructure and Platform as a Service (PAAS) solutions.
🔭 Current Focus
Digital Identity @ C4DT
Building Switzerland's E-ID infrastructure — digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and identity standards that respect privacy.
E-ID WorkshopSustainable IT @ EPFL
Leading a working group on Sustainable IT, sponsored by the Research Software Engineering community at EPFL. Working with ClimateRoboticsNetworks.
Archetype Project
Leading the rewrite of an open-source palaeographic annotation platform for medieval manuscript research.
archetype-pal🛠 Technical Toolkit
Languages
Backend & Data
Infrastructure
Cryptography & Identity
🌱 Open Source Highlights
E-ID Workshop
Building Switzerland's E-ID infrastructure — digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and identity standards that respect privacy.
archetype-pal
Leading the rewrite of an open-source palaeographic annotation platform for medieval manuscript research.
crypto-wasm-ts
TypeScript abstractions over Rust crypto library's WASM wrapper for verifiable credentials.
crypto-wasm
WASM wrapper over the cryptographic primitives library.
📚 Education & Certifications
🎓 Education
MITx MicroMasters
Statistics and Data Science
2019 - 2023
From probability and statistics to data analysis and machine learning, mastering skills needed to solve complex challenges.
Mansoura University
B.Eng. Computer Engineering
2011 - 2016
Learned to think systematically and apply disciplined solutions to real world problems. Success is not a coincidence, and so is good systems.
🏅 Certifications
Climatebase Fellow, Cohort 6
Climatebase · 2024
AI Safety, Ethics & Society
Center for AI Safety · 2023
Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
MIT edX · 2022
🏢 Organizations
Let's Connect
I'm always interested in discussing digital identity, climate tech, or interesting engineering challenges.