Backend engineer with 7+ years building scalable APIs and event-driven systems for fintech and travel-tech in the GCC. Strong in PHP/Laravel, Go, PostgreSQL and AWS. Comfortable owning services from design through to on-call.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Careem, Dubai, UAE
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Jan 2022 — Present |
Led the migration of the rides pricing service from monolith to microservices, cutting p99 latency by 38%. Mentored 4 junior engineers and rolled out the company-wide RFC + design-review process. Owned the on-call rotation; reduced critical incidents by 45% across two quarters.
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Backend Engineer
Talabat, Dubai, UAE
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Jul 2019 — Dec 2021 |
Owned the order-routing pipeline; built async retry logic that reduced failed deliveries by 22%. Designed a real-time courier-tracking service in Go handling 80k events/min.
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B.Tech, Computer Science
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
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2014 — 2018 |
CGPA 8.7/10 · Department merit scholarship
| Skills:PHP / Laravel · Go · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · REST & gRPC · Domain-driven design | Languages:English (Fluent) · Hindi (Native) · Arabic (Conversational) |