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Siddharth Ravi Chopra

Senior Backend Engineer at Careem | ex-Qatar Airways

Works at: Careem
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
Experience: 7+ years experience
Education: Technion
Languages: English, Arabic, Mandarin

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I work on API platforms at Careem in Abu Dhabi. Grew the public API team from 6 to 29 engineers. Before that: Qatar Airways and Mashreq. Most at home with REST and Django. Marathoner (11 so far).

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PythonRedisDjangoREST

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Senior Backend Engineer roles in public sector tech - Abu Dhabi or remote

Target roles: Senior Backend Engineer
Level: Senior
Industries: Developer tools, Climate tech
Work mode: Remote
Available: 60 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in the UAE
What I'm looking for: Early-stage company (seed) where API platforms is core to the product.
Not interested in: Night shifts

7 years in API platforms. Strongest at Python and REST. Available from next month.

Abu Dhabi, UAE · remote OKredispythondjango

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Senior Backend Engineer
Aug 2025 - Present
Careem · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Wrote the REST service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 412ms to 104ms.
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 23 a week to 2.
Backend Engineer
Mar 2024 - May 2025
Qatar Airways · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Moved 72% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Wrote the REST service that now handles 54 million requests a day.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
Mashreq · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 36% in two quarters.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
STC · 3 yr · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 24 a week to 4.

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Education

Technion
BSc, Mathematics
2015 - 2019

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