Tala Saleh

Overview

17 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Quartz Data, where I work on the developer experience team. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 43% in two quarters. Plant-based cook and baker.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2026 - Present
   Quartz Data · 10 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
   • Led or co-led 19 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 28 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Software Engineer

   Apr 2022 - Jan 2026
   Aramco · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
   • Moved 95% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 3.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
   Fiverr · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 812ms to 114ms.
4. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
   Emirates Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 29 a week to 1.
   • Wrote the compilers service that now handles 51 million requests a day.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
   SABIC · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
   • Moved 95% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 325ms to 140ms.

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Education

1. University of Jordan

   BSc, Computer Science
   2005 - 2009