Alia Jaber

Overview

Currently at Emirates Group, where I work on payments infrastructure. Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Experience

1. Staff Backend Engineer

   Dec 2024 - Present
   Emirates Group · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 5.
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 32 a week to 1.
2. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2022 - Dec 2024
   Etihad Airways · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Moved 86% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
   Wix · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 2.
   • Took payment success rates from 91.3% to 98.7%.
4. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
   SABIC · 3 yr · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 25 a week to 4.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 3.

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Education

1. Qatar University

   BSc, Computer Science
   2011 - 2015