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Joud Abboud

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Director of Engineering, Etihad Airways - CLI design · compilers · Rust

Works at
Etihad Airways
Location
Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)
Experience
12+ years experience
Education
King Saud University
Languages
English, Arabic, German
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Doha. I lead developer tools at Etihad Airways. Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely. Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 25 engineers. Before that: e& and Boston Consulting Group. Most at home with LSP and CLI design. Into vintage synthesizers.

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  • Roles in developer tools
  • Working sessions on Rust
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Offshore staffing offers

Best reached early in the week

Skills
compilersTypeScriptVS Code extensionsLSPCLI designRust
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Software Engineer roles at pre-seed AI infrastructure companies

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
B2B SaaS, Consumer apps
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Qatar
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on CLI design with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

15 years in developer tools. Strongest at compilers and Rust. Available from next month.

Doha, Qatar · remote OKrustlsptypescript
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Etihad Airways · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 3.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
    e& · 2 yr · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Backed 15 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 12 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Jun 2021
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 3.
    • Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
  4. Software Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
    HSBC · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Moved 80% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
    Mastercard · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 29 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 459ms to 147ms.

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Education

  1. King Saud University
    BSc, Information Technology
    2007 - 2011

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