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Rasha Barakat

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Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft · Developer tools

Works at
Microsoft
Location
Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)
Experience
9+ years experience
Education
King Saud University
Languages
English, Arabic
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Overview

I work on developer tools at Microsoft in Doha. Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 28 engineers. Before that: KPMG and Check Point Software. Most at home with compilers and gRPC. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Skills
VS Code extensionsLSPgRPCCLI designTypeScriptcompilersRust

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Microsoft · 7 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 22 a week to 1.
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Software Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Apr 2026
    KPMG · 3 yr 8 mo · Contract · Doha, Qatar
    • Moved 67% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
    Check Point Software · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 2.
    • Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 23 million requests a day.
  4. Software Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
    KPMG · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Moved 94% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 2.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
    Uber · 11 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Moved 88% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. King Saud University
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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