Hamza AlKaabi
SSenior 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
- Senior Engineering ManagerJun 2022 - PresentHeron 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.
- Senior Software EngineerJul 2020 - Jun 2022Boston 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.
- Software EngineerFeb 2019 - Jul 2020Google · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
- Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 39 a week to 1.
- Software EngineerMay 2017 - Feb 2019Mastercard · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
- Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 57 million requests a day.
Projects
Developer tools benchmark
2023Reproducible benchmarks comparing LSP and VS Code extensions on real workloads.
Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2023What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.
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Education
- American University in CairoBA, Electronics and Communication2011 - 2015
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