Latifa AlRashid

Overview

20 years in software engineering, the last 1 at STC, where I lead the data platform team. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 44% in two quarters. Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Mastercard and Amazon. Most at home with Snowflake and Iceberg. Into vintage synthesizers.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2025 - Present
   STC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 19 a week to 1.
   • Grew the data platform team from 3 to 31 engineers.
2. Senior Data Engineer

   Jun 2023 - Jul 2025
   Mastercard · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Built the forecasting models now used in 9 product decisions a quarter.
   • Taught SQL to 78 non-analysts.
3. Data Engineer

   Nov 2020 - Jun 2023
   Amazon · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Replaced 72 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
   Majid Al Futtaim · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Grew the data platform team from 3 to 38 engineers.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 2.
5. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
   Ooredoo · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   • Backed 14 founders at pre-seed and seed.

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Education

1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

   MS, Computer Engineering
   2009 - 2011
2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2001 - 2005