Tala AlShamsi

Director of Engineering, STC - Django · OpenAPI · Redis

STC

Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)

11+ years experience

American University in Cairo

English, Arabic, Hindi

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Currently at STC, where I lead API platforms with a team of 16. Grew the public API team from 3 to 12 engineers.

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RedisOpenAPIPythonDjango

Director of Engineering
Mar 2024 - Present
STC · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
- Grew the public API team from 4 to 23 engineers.
- Moved 94% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Backend Engineer
May 2020 - Dec 2023
Deloitte · 3 yr 7 mo · Contract · Doha, Qatar
- Moved 94% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Backend Engineer
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Swvl · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
- Led the migration of 52 services to OpenAPI.
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 22% in two quarters.
Backend Engineer
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Microsoft · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 366ms to 99ms.
Backend Engineer
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Visa · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
- Moved 65% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Conference talk: lessons from public API

2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling API platforms.

Open-source Python toolkit

2022

A small library for API platforms that 354 developers star on GitHub.

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