Hamza AlKaabi

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Senior Engineering Manager at Heron Analytics · Developer tools · TypeScript, LSP

Heron Analytics
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
9+ years experience
American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Overview

I lead developer tools at Heron Analytics in Dubai. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 26% in two quarters. Most at home with LSP and VS Code extensions.

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Skills
LSPVS Code extensionsTypeScriptPostgreSQL

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2022 - Present
    Heron Analytics · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 5.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 36% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 12 a week to 2.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Moved 91% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
    Google · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 39 a week to 1.
  4. Software Engineer
    May 2017 - Feb 2019
    Mastercard · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 57 million requests a day.

Projects

Developer tools benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing LSP and VS Code extensions on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.

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Education

  1. American University in Cairo
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2011 - 2015

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