Check-in was congested at Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
Ahmed Al Sharif
- Ahmed Al Sharif has worked in software engineering and consumer electronics for decades.
- The CTO found himself caught up in the outage-induced travel chaos early July 19.
- He said CrowdStrike broke a cardinal rule for developers, and the fall-out has been eye-opening.
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Ahmed Al Sharif, 32, the CTO of Sandsoft, a game developer.