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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Jan 2022 — Present
Dubai, UAE |
Senior Backend Engineer Careem 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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Jul 2019 — Dec 2021
Dubai, UAE |
Backend Engineer Talabat 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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2014 — 2018
Mumbai, India |
B.Tech, Computer Science IIT Bombay CGPA 8.7/10 · Department merit scholarship |