Ahmed Ibrahim Alazp
Senior Software Engineer | Voice AI & LLM Systems
me@ahmed-ibrahim.com | (206) 535-4401 | Seattle, WA
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Senior Software Engineer who has spent 5+ years building Voice AI agents that answer real business phone calls at scale. Core engineer on Goodcall's 4th-generation voice agent: an LLM-powered system handling thousands of live calls daily for hundreds of US businesses. Built through three generations of conversational AI (rule-based -> Dialogflow -> LLM), with end-to-end depth across real-time audio pipelines, speech processing, LLM orchestration, and production infrastructure on GCP. 10+ years of shipping software, with a bias toward complex systems that need to work in real time.
Work Experience
Goodcall (Remote)
Senior Software Engineer | Sep 2024 - Present
- Drove architecture and development of Goodcall's 4th-generation Voice AI agent — a ground-up LLM-first rebuild, alongside the engineering team.
- Engineered real-time voice infrastructure on LiveKit/WebRTC with sub-second response latency across thousands of daily calls and 99.9%+ uptime.
- Built LLM orchestration integrating GPT-4 and Gemini with model routing, streaming token delivery, and automatic fallback.
- Designed the speech pipeline (ASR -> LLM -> TTS) with barge-in detection, silence handling, and context windowing for natural conversations.
- Drove voice stack decisions from telephony integration to prompt engineering for a product serving hundreds of US businesses.
Full Stack Engineer | Mar 2021 - Sep 2024
- Evolved the AI agent across two generations: Dialogflow-based Gen 2 to hybrid NLU + early LLM Gen 3.
- Improved call resolution accuracy and expanded supported business categories.
Maxiom Technology (Remote)
Software Engineer | Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
- Built software automation tools with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React, Ember.js, and Redis.
- Created and maintained REST APIs in Rails, including Amazon API integrations.
- Built and managed Electron + Node.js + PubSub applications.
- Automated delivery with GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, and Jenkins.
04 Egypt (Cairo, Egypt)
Co-Founder & Software Engineer | Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
- Built and designed core architecture for Plot.ai, a Slack-like AI platform for organizational insights.
- Developed core features with Node.js, Python, AWS Sentiment Analysis, and Elasticsearch.
- Performed load and stress testing using JMeter.
- Led a team of 7 engineers across DevOps, QA, and development.
Chatbotsa (Cairo, Egypt)
Software Engineer | Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
- Built and integrated bots for Messenger, Slack, and Telegram.
- Built structured bot models with Node.js, Python, MongoDB, and MySQL.
- Applied NLP/NLU with Wit.ai and Rasa to improve conversational quality.
- Built and launched Estasharah, a doctor/patient consultation marketplace with 20k+ consultations, 350k+ users, and 700+ verified doctors.
04 Technologies (UAE, Remote)
Software Engineer | Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
- Built and integrated bots for Messenger, Slack, and Telegram.
- Built structured bot models with Node.js, Python, MongoDB, and MySQL.
- Applied NLP/NLU with Wit.ai and Rasa to improve conversational interactions.
Personal Projects
- Ahmed-ibrahim.com: Personal blog for technical writing and development challenges.
- 3lagnb.com: Local transportation guide serving 500k+ users and millions of monthly sessions.
- Mogrib.com: Arabic Q&A experience-sharing platform.
- Imageiry.com: Dynamic Open Graph image generation API for Twitter, Facebook, and Slack.
- Blood Bot: Messenger bot for nearby blood donation requests; nominated by Facebook as a top-20 chatbot in MENA (2018).
- Webloader: Open-source website asset downloader with 200+ GitHub stars, built with cURL, Express, and Socket.io.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science (GPA 3.12)
Higher Institute of Computer Science, Cairo, Egypt | 2014 - 2018
Highlights & Accolades
- Interview with Alghad TV (AI-assisted blood donation project)
- Interview with Nile News TV (AI-assisted blood donation project)
- Interview with Ten TV (AI-assisted blood donation project)
- News coverage for blood donation AI project
- Speaker at ICT Conference for Women in Upper Egypt
- Speaker at Egypt.Future for college students
- Facebook Developer Challenge finalist across MENA
- 2nd place in Bedaya programming competition
- 2nd place across Egypt in Egypt IoT competition
References
- Antonio Chagoury — Founder & CEO at Maxiom Technology
- Vince Knight — Product Owner at landlordlane.com
- Dr. Ahmed AlFalasi — Entrepreneur, intrapreneur, and angel investor
- Rashed Khalfan — Angel investor & Co-Founder of ZeroFour Technologies FZCO
- Eslam M. Youssef — Founder and CEO of Chatbotsa
Contacts upon request.