Currently crafting distributed systems • Obsessed with performance • Secretly love debugging production fires 🔥
📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE • 📧 [email protected]
Right now: Tinkering with GenAI agents that actually understand compliance rules (spoiler: it's harder than it looks)
Always: Systems that don't fall over when traffic spikes happen at 3 AM
For fun: Open source tools that make other developers' lives slightly less miserable
$ grep -r "why is this so slow" ~/brain/
→ Database indexes (or lack thereof)
→ N+1 queries hiding in plain sight
→ That microservice that somehow became a monolith
→ Why Kubernetes makes simple things complicated
→ Whether this cache invalidation will actually workLanguages: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript
# C++ when I'm feeling masochistic
Cloud: AWS (the parts that actually work)
Kubernetes (love-hate relationship)
Databases: PostgreSQL (reliable friend)
Redis (fast friend)
DynamoDB (expensive friend)
Daily Drivers: Spring Boot, FastAPI, Kafka
Docker, Terraform, way too much YAML🚀 Built a document processing pipeline that actually understands invoices (99.5% accuracy, take that OCR!)
⚡ Optimized some database queries from "grab coffee while it loads" to "blink and you'll miss it"
🤖 Created a GenAI assistant that writes better tickets than most humans (sorry, humans)
🔧 Open sourced some pipeline tools that 150+ teams now use (and hopefully don't curse at)
Currently reading: System design papers (yes, for fun)
Recently tried: Rust (still fighting the borrow checker)
Next up: WebAssembly (because why not?)
Fun fact: I once reduced AWS costs by 45% and felt like a financial wizard for a week.
- Mentoring engineers who are way smarter than me
- Writing posts that somehow reached 80k+ people (still not sure how)
- Explaining why "it works on my machine" isn't a deployment strategy
- Collecting passport stamps (14 countries and counting, mostly for the WiFi speed comparisons)
Love talking about system design, performance optimization, or why your distributed system is probably more distributed than it needs to be
Always up for: Technical discussions, code reviews, or helping debug that thing that works everywhere except production
PS: If you're looking for my resume, it's probably on LinkedIn like everyone else's 😄