Sara AlKaabi

Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Teva, where I lead the real-time team. Wrote the Elixir service that now handles 32 million requests a day. Most at home with WebSockets and dbt.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2023 - Present
   Teva · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
   • Moved 89% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 2.
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Software Engineer

   Jul 2020 - Jun 2023
   Talabat · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 45% in two quarters.
3. Software Engineer

   Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
   HSBC · 2 yr 4 mo · Contract · Manama, Bahrain
   • Moved 71% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Jan 2018
   Teva · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
   • Moved 78% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2012 - Oct 2014
   Google · 2 yr · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 34% in two quarters.
   • Moved 87% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Khalifa University

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2008 - 2012