Dana AlShamsi

Overview

22 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Vista Analytics, where I lead the developer platform team. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with CI/CD and Go. Board member at a local non-profit.

Experience

1. CTO

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Vista Analytics · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
   • Shipped 8 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 397ms to 161ms.
2. Senior Platform Engineer

   Feb 2021 - Oct 2023
   Standard Chartered · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 22 a week to 2.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
   Amazon · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
   • Wrote the Go service that now handles 27 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 29 a week to 3.
4. Staff Platform Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
   Monday.com · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
   • Led the migration of 73 services to service mesh.
   • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2014 - Nov 2017
   EY · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 399ms to 90ms.
   • Wrote the observability service that now handles 4 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

   BSc, Electronics and Communication
   2000 - 2004