Senior Engineer / IBM Security
Led the DevOps team for QRadar EDR and worked on platform engineering for a cybersecurity product serving customers including government entities. Provided production support during outages affecting customers.
Senior Lead Engineer / Zaandam, Netherlands
Mohamed Nasr.
Engineer, team lead and founder.
At IBM Security, I led the DevOps team for QRadar EDR and supported customers during production outages. I also run WebNasr. I’m writing a book about job searching.
01 / Career
Experience.
Education
Master’s degree, ESPRIT School of Engineering
2013–2017
Solution Engineer / Netcapital
Worked as a Solution Engineer at Netcapital.
Technologies
Senior Software Engineer / Netcapital
Delivered a shared design system, reusable components, and a JavaScript page editor for content teams.
Technologies
Fullstack Engineer / Sidas
Built education platform features and coordinated third-party API integrations.
Technologies
Team Lead / Dev Manager / Kawami
Led MEAN-stack development and AWS setup for the Careways medical tourism platform.
Technologies
Recommendations
From colleagues and teachers.
What impressed me most was his transition into leadership. During a critical period, after a key DevOps engineer left unexpectedly, Mohamed stepped in and was promoted to Team Lead.
Read the full recommendation from Sebastian Harko
I had the opportunity to manage Mohamed at IBM while working as an Engineering Manager for the QRadar EDR product.
Mohamed consistently showed strong technical range across backend, frontend, AWS, OpenShift, CI and CD, and production delivery. He learned unfamiliar systems quickly, stayed calm during difficult situations, and took ownership of problems until they were resolved.
What impressed me most was his transition into leadership. During a critical period, after a key DevOps engineer left unexpectedly, Mohamed stepped in and was promoted to Team Lead. The odds were against him, because the team had lost important deployment knowledge and still had customer commitments to meet.
Despite this, he successfully led the team while remaining technically hands on. He coordinated the work, supported the engineers, learned the missing OpenShift knowledge, and helped the team deliver what stakeholders expected.
Mohamed proved that he could succeed both as a technical engineer and as a leader. I recommend him without hesitation.
He combines strong hands‑on skills with clear leadership: he dives into code and diagnostics himself, makes sound decisions under time pressure, and keeps the team aligned on priorities while handling sensitive customer situations with professionalism and empathy.
Read the full recommendation from Giuseppe Bonfa
I worked with Mohamed in my role as Head of Product Support for IBM Security, where he has excelled as both a developer and support engineer showing great leadership skills. In high‑pressure, customer‑critical situations, Mohamed consistently steps up as a calm technical lead.
He combines strong hands‑on skills with clear leadership: he dives into code and diagnostics himself, makes sound decisions under time pressure, and keeps the team aligned on priorities while handling sensitive customer situations with professionalism and empathy. I strongly recommend Mohamed for senior / lead engineering roles.
More professional and academic recommendations (8)
Professional recommendations
Mohamed has a positive influence on the team and can motive others to join his vision. He brings a spark to the team with his positive attitude and shows strong management skills.
Mohamed is an exceptional developer who possesses all the skills one would want in an excellent software engineer. He consistently gave 100 percent effort to the team and played a significant role in ensuring that we completed assignments on time. His work is always top-notch, and he is always welcoming to feedback and making improvements. Plus, Mohamed is self-motivated and a great team player.
I’ve seen Mohamed go above and beyond in Web development and collaboration opportunities with different Projects during the 4 years we worked together. Because of his ‘student for life’ mindset, he’s also eager to learn new techniques, and that’s how our team always on the lead by smashing high records and get clients happiness.
Academic recommendations
Excellent student and have good talent in communication and in technical area.
Med. Hedi is a student with great anger to succeed in there his student life that professional. he will be a skilled versatile engineer considering his ability so fast to conceive develop and analyze. I highly recommend him.
My first contact with Nasr Mohamed hedi was two years ago when he often asked me some technical questions without me being his teacher. I immediately realized that he is passionate about the web, and that's why he opted for the TWIN option (Web Technologies and Internet) to Esprit. It was then this year that I had him as a student in my class in the module Web integration, and I confess that he has exceptional qualities in his passion for the web and in autonomy. He analyzes his problems perfectly and is fully involved in them.it.
Nasr Mohamed hedi is a hard-working, serious, passionate, highly intelligent student with good communication and group work skills. It was a pleasure to have it in class ... I highly recommend it as it will undoubtedly make an excellent engineer and will have its added value in the professional setting.
I am a teacher at ESPRIT and I had the pleasure to teach and supervise Mohamed Hedi Nasr during his studies of computer engineer, I taught him the bases of the web during the "Integrated Web Project And Java "during the academic years 2015-2016 as well as the project Integrated Project MEAN Stack. Conscientious, assiduous, creative and persevering, Mohamed Hedi is an exemplary student who has brought full satisfaction throughout his studies at ESPRIT. I consider it a very good element with the academic skills and the human qualities needed. I remain at your disposal for any additional information you would like to see. Please accept my best regards.
02 / Selected writing
Writing.
LeadershipReport
AI Coding Tools: What Changed, and What I’d Test
Windsurf became Devin Desktop. SpaceX acquired Cursor. A look at the confirmed changes, Codex with Astra, Claude Code, and how I would choose tools for a team.
Read reportDevelopmentEssay
Frontend Is Application Engineering
Search state, stale responses, and failed writes: what a frontend has to get right beyond the screen.
Read essayLeadershipGuide
Leading a Technical Migration
How to scope a migration, test its failure paths, and hand over a system the rest of the team can run.
Read guide03 / Ventures & projects
What I’m building.
Four live websites. Two projects under development.
WebNasr
My web development business.
Comparaison.tn
Product comparison for shoppers in Tunisia.
Tauxdechange.tn
Exchange-rate information for Tunisia.
Cartedecredit.tn
Credit card comparisons for Tunisia.
ScoutAI
An AI agent that reads job listings, writes a tailored CV and cover letter for each one, and keeps a running tracker, with a human approval step before anything is sent. Building it to ship as a free, public tool.
SwipeJobs
A Tinder-style job discovery platform connecting candidates and recruiters, with resume parsing, subscriptions, and role-based access for candidates, recruiters, and admins.
04 / Technical background
Tools I use.
Explore the tools and platforms
Languages & runtimes
Backend, frontend, and scripting work across my roles and projects.
Frameworks & messaging
Backend services, event pipelines, and the front ends that sit on top of them.
Cloud, platform & DevSecOps
AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and the tools I use to deploy and operate services.
Data & observability
Databases, search, and monitoring.
Product & delivery tools
What ScoutAI and SwipeJobs are actually built with, alongside the platforms above.
Leadership & practice
Architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and planning with a team.
05 / Beyond work
Manuscriptin progress
I’m writing a book.
It’s about job searching and applications: the searches that went nowhere, and what changed my approach. I’m excited to be writing it, especially now, when finding the right role can be such a frustrating process.
It’s still in progress. I’ve shared part of the thinking in “Apply to Fewer Jobs and Mean Every One.”
Read the articleAway from work, I’m a father, gamer, wrestler, and gym addict.
06 / Contact
Let’s talk about your team.
I’m looking for an engineering leadership role where I can help a team make sound technical decisions and deliver.
Tell me about the team, the role, and the problems you’re working on. You can also write to me about a project or an article.