Mo Soliman

Mo(hamed) Soliman

Dublin, Ireland

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in building user-facing products. Language and framework-agnostic, with expertise in multiple frameworks, most proficient in Rails. Currently building products for Microsoft.

Work Experience

My professional journey through various companies and roles

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

May 2021 - Present
Dublin, Ireland

Member of OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) team in Dublin, Ireland.

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

May 2021 - April 2022
Berlin, Germany - Remote

Member of Modern Workplace Transformation (MWT) team in Dublin, Ireland.

Careem (an Uber Company)

Software Engineer II

January - May 2021
Berlin, Germany

Member of platform engineering team (stack: Java, Kotlin, Spring).

Klue

Software Engineer

September 2020 - January 2021
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Working on product features and ML/NLP pipeline (stack: Python, Rails, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL).

Booking

Software Developer

December 2019 - August 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Member of the Price Display Team (Software Stack: Perl, Java).

Smule

Software Development Engineer II and Team Lead

June 2018 - September 2019
San Francisco, California

Led the web team (4 people), provided time planning and development plans for product features.

Cluster of Excellence MMCI, Saarland University

Visiting Researcher

January 2017 - March 2018
Saarbrucken, Germany

Research with the Human-Computer Interaction group in Saarland University.

Education

My academic background and qualifications

Master's Degree

EIT Digital Computer Science with a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2014 - 2017
Paris-Sud University, France - Aalto University, Finland

Thesis: Combining User-Centered Design and Persuasive Design for Enhancing Consumer Products.

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Bachelor's Degree

Computer Systems and Engineering

2007 - 2012
Alexandria University, Egypt

Thesis: Efhamni: American Sign Language recognition system using Microsoft Kinect Sensor.

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Summer Schools

ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction

July 2017
ETH Zurich

Security and Privacy in Digital Life Summer School

July 2015
University of Trento, Italy

Publications

My research contributions and academic papers

FingerInput: Capturing Expressive Single-Hand Thumb-to-Finger Microgestures

Mohamed Soliman, Franziska Mueller, Lena Hegemann, Joan Sol Roo, Christian Theobalt, and Jurgen Steimle

Best Academic Paper Award

ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2018

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Towards Gaze-based Video Annotation

Mohamed Soliman, Hamed R. Tavakoli, and Jorma Laaksonen

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications 2016

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Get In Touch

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