Sadia Fatima Hussain

Overview

I've spent 19 years on distributed databases - first at MakeMyTrip, now at Orchard Analytics. Led the migration of 26 services to Raft. Before that: Groww and PhonePe.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Nov 2025 - Present
   Orchard Analytics · 11 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Led the migration of 27 services to Rust.
   • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 683ms to 76ms.
2. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
   Groww · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Led the migration of 14 services to Rust.
   • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Software Engineer

   May 2019 - Mar 2022
   PhonePe · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 23 a week to 3.
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 19% in two quarters.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jan 2018 - May 2019
   Cognizant · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 813ms to 91ms.
   • Shipped 24 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
   MakeMyTrip · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Moved 63% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. NIT Surathkal

   B.Tech, Computer Engineering
   2003 - 2007