Sumaiya Amreen Khan

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Director of Engineering, Dream11 - LSP · TypeScript · CLI design

Dream11
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
Anna University
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Dream11, focused on developer tools. Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 21 engineers. Before that: Zomato and Amazon. Most at home with VS Code extensions and CLI design.

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Skills
CLI designRustTypeScriptcompilersLSPVS Code extensions

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Dream11 · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 17 a week to 4.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 30 engineers.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
    Zomato · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 38 engineers.
    • Moved 66% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
    Amazon · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 5.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Moved 79% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Software Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
    Cognizant · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 67 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source LSP toolkit
2026

A small library for developer tools that 500 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Anna University
    B.E., Information Technology
    2006 - 2010

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