Mai Qasim

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Engineering Manager at Denholm Networks · Distributed databases · Raft, performance engineering

Denholm Networks
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
13+ years experience
American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Overview

I've spent 13 years on distributed databases - first at Accenture, now at Denholm Networks. Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 55 million requests a day. Before that: Amazon and First Abu Dhabi Bank. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Skills
C++consensusperformance engineeringRustRocksDBRaft
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on C++ at scale

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$142k-$174k + equity
Team
Storage, 8 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with consensus Production experience with Rust Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp AED 38k-60k a month. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Dubai, UAE · remote OKrocksdbperformance engineeringc++
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Denholm Networks · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 3.
  2. Software Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Apr 2023
    Amazon · 2 yr · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 870ms to 158ms.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
    First Abu Dhabi Bank · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Moved 85% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 13 a week to 4.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
    Etihad Airways · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 43% in two quarters.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
    Accenture · 1 yr · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Moved 85% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. American University in Cairo
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2009 - 2013

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