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Senior Engineering Manager at Nectar Cloud | ex-e&

Nectar Cloud
Manama, Bahrain · AST (UTC+3)
12+ years experience
American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
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Overview

I've spent 12 years on embedded systems - first at Emirates Group, now at Nectar Cloud. Moved 63% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 14 a week to 2. Marathoner (3 so far).

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on ARM Cortex-M
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
ARM Cortex-Mhardware bring-upBluetooth LEaccessibilityembedded LinuxCRTOS
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3 data engineer roles open on the firmware team in Manama

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$154k-$220k + equity
Team
Firmware, 15 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp AED 30k-51k a month. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Nectar Cloud · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Led the migration of 52 services to ARM Cortex-M.
    • Grew the firmware team from 6 to 23 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 538ms to 174ms.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    May 2021 - Jan 2024
    e& · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 4.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 27 a week to 1.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2019 - May 2021
    STC · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 3.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 445ms to 43ms.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
    PwC · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 556ms to 169ms.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
    Emirates Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Moved 86% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 20 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. American University of Beirut
    BE, Electrical Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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