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Maya Qasim

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Principal Engineer at Ooredoo · Payments infrastructure · Kafka, Go

Works at
Ooredoo
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · AST (UTC+3)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Qatar University
Languages
English, Arabic
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Overview

I've spent 18 years on payments infrastructure - first at Boston Consulting Group, now at Ooredoo. Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 784ms to 58ms. Before that: Qatar Airways and Emirates NBD. Most at home with PostgreSQL and distributed systems. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Skills
KafkagRPCPostgreSQLdistributed systemsGoJava
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Office hours for career switchers into engineering: payments infrastructure and gRPC

Topics
consumer, Kafka, PostgreSQL
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First-time founders

18 years of payments infrastructure. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabiagodistributed systemskafka
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    May 2024 - Present
    Ooredoo · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Led or co-led 22 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Dec 2020 - May 2024
    Qatar Airways · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 6.
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 510ms to 95ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
    Emirates NBD · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Took payment success rates from 93.4% to 98.7%.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
    Check Point Software · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 736ms to 112ms.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Dec 2011 - Sep 2015
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Led the migration of 26 services to PostgreSQL.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Qatar University
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2004 - 2008

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