Amal Darwish

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Fenwick Financial, focused on search and ranking. Moved 95% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the search team from 5 to 21 engineers. Before that: Amazon and Feedzai. Most at home with GraphQL and Elasticsearch. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2024 - Present
   Fenwick Financial · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 19% in two quarters.
   • Led the migration of 21 services to GraphQL.
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 484ms to 69ms.
2. Software Engineer

   Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
   Amazon · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Wrote the GraphQL service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 844ms to 64ms.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
   Feedzai · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Aug 2018
   Bolt · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Moved 64% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Software Engineer

   Dec 2010 - Oct 2014
   Celonis · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 3.
   • Moved 82% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Sorbonne University

   Licence, Mathematics
   2005 - 2008