Professional Summary
Senior Software Engineer building high-traffic payment and e-commerce platforms. Designs cloud-native services on AWS and Kubernetes, leads teams of 6–8 engineers, and has cut infrastructure cost by 38% while raising availability to 99.98%. Known for pragmatic architecture, clean code, and mentoring.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Rawaj PayRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
03/2021 – Present
Led a team of 7 engineers rebuilding the checkout service that processes 2.1M transactions per monthCut p95 API latency from 820 ms to 190 ms by introducing event-driven processing on KafkaReduced AWS infrastructure cost by 38% through autoscaling and right-sizing 140 servicesRaised platform availability from 99.90% to 99.98% with multi-zone failover and SLO alertingIntroduced contract testing that lowered production incidents by 45% year over year across 12 teams
Software Engineer
Najd CommerceRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
06/2018 – 02/2021
Built the order-tracking microservice serving 9M monthly customers across 3 countries in 2 languagesMigrated 22 legacy services to Kubernetes, shortening deployment time from 2 hours to 12 minutesImplemented Arabic and English search relevance tuning that increased conversion by 11% on mobile
Junior Software Developer
Watani Digital ServicesRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
07/2016 – 05/2018
Developed REST APIs in Java Spring Boot for government e-service portals with 1M+ registered usersWrote unit and integration tests that raised code coverage from 54% to 83% across 9 services
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
King Saud University
09/2011 – 06/2016
