My name is Mahmoud El-Safty and you can call me Safty for short! I'm a co-founder & co-director of [[http://www.fablab-egypt.org/|Fab Lab Egypt]]. I have a B.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineeting and I do IT cosulting with focus on data center infrastructure, cloud computing, and virtualization technologies for a living and worked before in various IT jobs such as technical support, system administration, and software testing. I have been travelling a lot for work and have been to more that 30 countries! I love everything technical, and I have been always passionate about tinkering, hacking, and making things. I'm very excited about being a Fab Academy student this year and looking forward to developing my jack-of-all-trade skills!

Interests

• Open-source software/hardware
• IP technologies
• Protoyping
• Manufacturing
• How things work
• How things are made
• Physics
• Machines & Robotics
• Learning new stuff
• Travel

My Fab Academy goals

• Develop a good understanding of the process in order to develop a Fab Academy based curriculum in Arabic (my mother tongue) to help the Arab makers/wanna-be makers develop their skills exponentially
• Better understanding of 2D and 3D modeling
• To be able to make anything that I can imagine

Contact

Twitter: melsafty

Email: elsafty.mahmoud [at] gmail.com

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