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Abdullah AlHashimi

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Director of Engineering at Fiverr | ex-Talabat

Works at
Fiverr
Location
Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Languages
English, Arabic, German

Overview

I lead embedded systems at Fiverr in Doha. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 3. Most at home with C and ARM Cortex-M. Jazz piano, badly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Second opinions on C decisions
  • Questions about embedded systems
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Best reached early in the week

Skills
CBluetooth LEARM Cortex-Mhardware bring-upembedded Linux

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Fiverr · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Moved 90% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 3.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
    Talabat · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 20% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
    Swvl · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Led the migration of 20 services to ARM Cortex-M.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
    KPMG · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 13 a week to 1.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from firmware
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling embedded systems.

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Education

  1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    MS, Computer Science
    2017 - 2019
  2. University of Dubai
    BBA, Computer Science
    2009 - 2013

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