Mazen AlShehri

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Principal Engineer, Sable Finance - Linux · Kubernetes · Prometheus

Sable Finance
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · AST (UTC+3)
11+ years experience
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
English, Arabic
Advising
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Overview

Based in Riyadh. I work on cloud infrastructure at Sable Finance. Moved 73% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 37 a week to 4. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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  • Advice on B2B SaaS
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Skills
AWSGoLinuxincident responseTerraformPrometheusKubernetes
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: cloud infrastructure and Terraform

Topics
B2B SaaS, Linux, Go
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Equity
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

11 years of cloud infrastructure. One call a month or async reviews.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabiakubernetesincident responseprometheus
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Sable Finance · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Led or co-led 35 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
    PwC · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 32 a week to 1.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 30 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the AWS service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
    Wix · 9 mo · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 28 a week to 2.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 836ms to 147ms.

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Education

  1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    MS, Information Technology
    2018 - 2020
  2. Khalifa University
    BSc, Information Technology
    2011 - 2015

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