Heba Fatima AlRashid

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Principal Engineer at BlaBlaCar · Growth engineering

BlaBlaCar
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
10+ years experience
Sorbonne University
English, Portuguese
Open to work
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Overview

I work on growth engineering at BlaBlaCar in Lisbon. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Reduced cloud spend on growth by 40% in two quarters. Most at home with React and analytics.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in AI applications
  • Working sessions on PostgreSQL
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on TypeScript decisions
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests
Skills
analyticsTypeScriptReactPostgreSQL
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Staff Full-Stack Engineer roles in HR tech - Lisbon or remote

Target roles
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Industries
AI infrastructure, Logistics
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Portugal
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series A) where AI applications is core to the product.
Not interested in
Night shifts

21 years in growth engineering. Strongest at TypeScript and analytics. Available immediately.

Lisbon, Portugalreactanalyticspostgresql
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    BlaBlaCar · 1 yr · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Backed 50 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
  2. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2025
    Telefónica · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 602ms to 85ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 20% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
    Bosch · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 39 a week to 2.
  4. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
    Telefónica · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Moved 64% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Full-Stack Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
    Delivery Hero · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped 26 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Sorbonne University
    Licence, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2004

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