Work

Software engineering roles since 2017, all based in Dubai. The full history is on LinkedIn.

• Calo

  Software Engineer · Mar 2022 – present

  Calo delivers personalised meal plans built on nutrition algorithms. It started in Bahrain in 2019 and now runs in four countries.

  • Brought business-critical bugs down to zero in the core customer experience squad
  • Reworked the algorithm that assigns food to customers
  • Improved the reliability, performance and data efficiency of core business logic
  • Led technical initiatives that improved profitability, streamlined internal workflows and cut manual effort

• Crescent Enterprises

  Software Engineer · Feb 2019 – Mar 2022

  • Cut hosting fees by 65% by migrating to AWS and re-architecting projects
  • Improved page-load performance of a production project by 80% across frontend and backend
  • Introduced tooling that increased developer velocity
  • Built a core codebase shared across all the startups
  • Implemented monitoring and logging for compliance
  • Integrated third-party APIs for payments (Stripe, Checkout, PayPal), content and FX rates
  • Took projects from MVP to public beta, coordinating directly with project owners

• Brndstr

  Software Engineer · Jun 2017 – Feb 2019

  • Built the architecture and features for a real-time Twitter platform (about 1.5M requests a month)
  • Built and deployed business-critical apps on AWS (EC2, ELB, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, SQS, Lambda, IAM) and on-premises (Docker, nginx, pm2)
  • Developed Node.js APIs for frontend and client use
  • Diagnosed and optimised Node.js and MongoDB performance
  • Built features for an Ember.js app
  • Test-driven development for the chatbot and Twitter platform with Mocha and Sinon.JS

• Brndstr

  Software Engineering Intern · Mar 2017 – May 2017

  • Researched the tech stack and proposed the architecture for a major project, presenting to senior and client technical teams
  • Built a Node.js app and frontend to train IBM Watson from CSV uploads, moderate its responses and assign intents to failed phrases
  • Implemented an authentication service

Side projects

• Project Doorbell

  2018

  My first open-source project: a Node app that plays sounds on events from AWS Lambda and a Slack channel. It started as a doorbell powered by an AWS IoT button.

• Collabro

  2015 – 2016

  An online platform for collaborating on music production and connecting artists. Placed top 5 in the UAE in the Innovation category.

Certifications

• Information Systems Management (EMC)
• Cloud Computing (EMC)