Nabila Balqis Ibrahim

Overview

I lead embedded systems at Coupang in Kuala Lumpur. Moved 90% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Canva and Hyundai Motor. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and C. Kannada theatre fan.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2023 - Present
   Coupang · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the firmware team from 4 to 16 engineers.
   • Shipped 15 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
2. Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
   Canva · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Shipped 22 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
3. Engineering Manager

   Oct 2018 - Nov 2021
   Hyundai Motor · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 88% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
   Mastercard · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Wrote the ARM Cortex-M service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
   • Moved 62% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Mar 2013 - Jan 2017
   HSBC · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 31 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Monash University

   BCom, Computer Engineering
   2007 - 2011