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Ahmed AlKuwari

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Staff Backend Engineer at Talabat · Payments infrastructure · distributed systems, Kafka

Works at
Talabat
Location
Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)
Experience
9+ years experience
Education
Cairo University
Languages
English, Arabic

Overview

I work on payments infrastructure at Talabat in Doha. Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 301ms to 57ms. Most at home with distributed systems and idempotency.

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Skills
idempotencyOWASPKafkaPostgreSQLdistributed systems

Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Talabat · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 24% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
    Swvl · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Moved 82% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
    Microsoft · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Doha, Qatar
    • Shipped 20 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  4. Backend Engineer
    May 2018 - Mar 2020
    Noon · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Took payment success rates from 92.6% to 96.4%.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 6 million transactions a day.

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Education

  1. Cairo University
    BSc, Mathematics
    2012 - 2016

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