Bandar AlSuwaidi

Overview

I've spent 15 years on growth engineering - first at Noon, now at Emirates NBD. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 791ms to 178ms. Before that: First Abu Dhabi Bank and Mashreq. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Experience

1. Staff Full-Stack Engineer

   Aug 2023 - Present
   Emirates NBD · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 31 a week to 4.
   • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Full-Stack Engineer

   Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
   First Abu Dhabi Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Shipped 20 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 4.
3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   May 2020 - Nov 2021
   Mashreq · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 21 a week to 4.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Mar 2019 - May 2020
   Google · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 30 million requests a day.
5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
   Noon · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Moved 77% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. INSEAD Abu Dhabi

   MBA, Business Administration
   2012 - 2014
2. University of Dubai

   BBA, Computer Engineering
   2007 - 2011