Nadia AlQahtani

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Principal Engineer, SABIC - Gradle · Kotlin · Android performance

SABIC
Cairo, Egypt · EET (UTC+2)
14+ years experience
American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
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Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 3 at SABIC, where I work on the Android team. Brought on-call pages for Android down from 18 a week to 3. Before that: Fiverr and Talabat. Most at home with Android performance and Coroutines.

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Android performanceJetpack ComposeGradleMVVMCoroutinesKotlin
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for a commercial co-founder for farm-input financing for farmer cooperatives

The idea
Farm-input financing for farmer cooperatives
Stage
Prototype
I bring
10 years in consumer
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Cairo or remote

I bring 14 years of mobile apps (currently SABIC). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Cairo, Egyptkotlinjetpack composecoroutines
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2023 - Present
    SABIC · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
    • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 22 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2021 - Dec 2023
    Fiverr · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 31% in two quarters.
  3. Android Engineer
    May 2018 - Jul 2021
    Talabat · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
    • Took crash-free sessions from 98.2% to 99.9%.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.
  4. Senior Android Engineer
    Nov 2015 - May 2018
    Etihad Airways · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 28 a week to 1.
  5. Android Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Nov 2015
    Teva · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
    • Took crash-free sessions from 98.8% to 99.9%.
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 41% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. American University of Beirut
    BE, Computer Science
    2008 - 2012

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