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// about me

Software engineer with 3 years of experience building payment infrastructure in fintech. I've worked across the full stack, from API integrations processing billions in payments to containerised services on Kubernetes. Experienced with AWS, .NET, and designing scalable systems that actually have to work.


What keeps me in this field is the stakes. In payments, the code you ship either works or it doesn't, there's no grey area when real money is moving. I'm drawn to problems where the engineering decisions have genuine consequences, and I take pride in building things that hold up under that pressure.

Youssef Elshemi
  • London, UK
  • BSc Computer Science
    University of Exeter
    First Class Honours
  • Software Engineer · Alpha Group
  • English & Arabic

// experience

Where I've Worked

Software Engineer
Alpha Group
Jan 2025 – Present · London, UK
  • Drove compliance with Bank of England regulations across multiple payment initiation solutions
  • Rewrote the internal transfer service from serverless to a containerised K8s deployment, improving reliability and scalability
  • Delivered end-to-end Verification of Payee within the payments backend, from design through to production
  • Built a customer-facing document generation service for financial documents
Graduate Software Engineer
Alpha Group
Sep 2023 – Jan 2025 · London, UK
  • Built API integrations with counterparty banks for payment initiation, processing over £25bn in transactions
  • Designed and implemented Straight Through Processing (STP), cutting payment processing time by 90%
  • Contributed to scalable payment system architecture meeting regulatory and industry standards
  • Partnered with the settlements team to identify and resolve operational bottlenecks
  • Managed client technical onboarding via H2H and SWIFT across reporting and payment solutions
Co-Founder & CTO
DataScrapa
Feb 2023 – Jan 2024 · Remote
  • Built entire codebase and pipeline from scratch
  • Reverse-engineered Android apps for internal API access
  • Deployed AWS serverless infrastructure (S3, Athena, Lambda, Batch)
  • Scaled data pipeline to process millions of records daily, onboarding first paying customers

// skills

What I Work With

Languages
C# / .NET Core Python TypeScript Apex
Cloud & DevOps
AWS Docker Kubernetes IaC CircleCI Jenkins Git
Data & Databases
PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Big Data Data Analysis
Payments & Fintech
REST APIs SWIFT H2H Payment Initiation Open Banking
Engineering
Software Design Software Infrastructure OOP System Design Distributed Systems Event-Driven Architecture CI/CD

// contact

Let's Build Something

Open to interesting conversations - reach out via email or connect on LinkedIn

[email protected] linkedin.com/in/youssef-elshemi github.com/YoussefElshemi