Joud Toukan

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Director of Engineering at Northgate Networks · Growth engineering · Node.js, React

Northgate Networks
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
12+ years experience
Qatar University
English, Arabic
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Overview

Currently at Northgate Networks, where I lead growth engineering with a team of 46. Brought on-call pages for growth down from 34 a week to 1. I play football every Sunday.

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Skills
ReactPostgreSQLexperimentationNode.jsanalyticsTypeScriptWebSockets
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Building out growth at Northgate Networks: data engineers wanted in Dubai

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$123k-$182k + equity
Team
Growth, 14 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp AED 35k-64k a month. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Dubai, UAEexperimentationwebsocketsreact
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2024 - Present
    Northgate Networks · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 32 a week to 1.
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 394ms to 57ms.
  2. Full-Stack Engineer
    Mar 2021 - May 2024
    Standard Chartered · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Wrote the analytics service that now handles 72 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 24 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
    Oracle · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Shipped 17 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
    Accenture · 3 yr · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Grew the growth team from 4 to 33 engineers.
  5. Full-Stack Engineer
    Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
    Noon · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Moved 70% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source experimentation toolkit
2024

A small library for growth engineering that 338 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Qatar University
    BSc, Computer Science
    2007 - 2011

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