Ghada Dana Darwish

Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Carrow Technologies, where I lead the payments platform team. Took payment success rates from 91.9% to 97.8%. Before that: Emirates NBD and Oracle. I write a small newsletter about payments infrastructure.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Carrow Technologies · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Wrote the distributed systems service that now handles 11 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 12 a week to 4.
2. Backend Engineer

   May 2022 - Feb 2025
   Emirates NBD · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Moved 77% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Backend Engineer

   Feb 2019 - May 2022
   Oracle · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Wrote the idempotency service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
   • Shipped 16 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
4. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
   Accenture · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Shipped 6 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
   • Took payment success rates from 91.3% to 97.5%.

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Education

1. Technion

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2012 - 2016