Khalid AlHashimi

Overview

27 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Indigo Data, where I lead the developer platform team. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 25% in two quarters. Shipped 12 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback. Most at home with Bazel and observability. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

Experience

1. CTO

   Jan 2026 - Present
   Indigo Data · 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Wrote the Go service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 28 a week to 1.
2. Staff Platform Engineer

   May 2024 - Sep 2025
   Accenture · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 38 million requests a day.
3. Platform Engineer

   Aug 2020 - Jan 2024
   Talabat · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 4.
4. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
   Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Moved 72% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
5. Staff Platform Engineer

   Dec 2014 - Feb 2018
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 30% in two quarters.

Projects

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Education

1. Tel Aviv University

   BA, Electronics and Communication
   1995 - 1999