Staff Software Engineer | Technical Team Lead, Almatar Group (B2B & B2C)
Jan, 2023 - May, 20252 years 5 months
Led backend and platform development across Almatar’s B2B and B2C verticals, progressing from B2B engineer to leading the entire technical team. Drove migration from legacy systems to microservices, built critical booking and retention features, and ensured scalability and high availability across platforms. Oversaw 11+ engineers, QA, and product teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing travel solutions.
Architected and led migration from a legacy PHP monolith to scalable NestJS microservices, improving maintainability and developer velocity.
Optimized system observability with Grafana and Prometheus, reducing downtime and improving incident response time.
Built a Travel Management System (TMS) from scratch, scaling it to 3,000+ weekly bookings using NestJS, Angular, Kafka, and AWS.
Integrated major hotel booking systems, enhancing availability and partner reach.
Created retention features like Fortune Wheel, generating $10M+ revenue within a week.
Launched SmartBook and Rebooker systems, reducing hotel search latency from 12s to 200ms–2s.
Optimized partner APIs and saved over 2M+ SAR monthly by improving efficiency and fault tolerance.
Ensured 24/7 uptime for platforms processing 6–8M+ SAR daily through robust health checks and monitoring.
Standardized engineering practices and ensured security compliance across teams and services.