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Ahmad Alhyari

@ahmadalhyari

VP of Engineering and IC-driven platform architect scaling high-throughput B2B2C systems with low-latency, ownership culture, and measurable impact.

United Arab Emirates
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead engineering teams building B2B2C, high-throughput, low-latency platforms—owning platform strategy, delivery discipline, and reliability, while scaling an engineering culture with measurable impact (performance, uptime, and cost).

I’m an engineering executive with 15+ years leading high-performance SaaS platforms and geo-distributed engineering organisations at growth-stage tech companies. I’m IC-origin, with deep hands-on experience in TypeScript, Node.js, GoLang, and MongoDB—building production dispatching, ETA, and marketplace systems from the ground up before transitioning into engineering leadership.

As Director of Engineering at Careem, I led 45+ engineers across 5 high-throughput product platforms—pricing, real-time ETA, intelligent routing, health analytics, and supply-demand matching—with sub-second latency requirements. I owned end-to-end migration of 5 business domains from a legacy monolith to an event-driven, true microservices logistics platform, maintaining 99.95% uptime across 9 active markets, and I drove $2.7M in annualised savings while improving last-mile delivery adherence by 6pp. I also rebuilt engineering management discipline to reduce production incidents by 40% and rolled out agentic AI development workflows (Claude Code, Claude Coder) to measurably uplift delivery throughput.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Director of Engineering

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Led 45+ engineers across 5 high-throughput marketplace platforms (pricing, real-time ETA, routing, health analytics, supply-demand matching) with sub-second latency requirements. Migrated 5 business domains from a legacy monolith to event-driven true microservices across 9 markets while maintaining 99.95% uptime and drove $2.7M in annualised savings, improving last-mile delivery adherence by 6pp.

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Associate Director of Engineering

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Architected and delivered a global disbursement platform, transforming a settlement orchestrator into an enterprise-grade distributed system for 1,000+ merchants across multiple markets. Automated billing cycles, reducing merchant statement processing from 3 days to 3 hours (60% improvement) and built integrity systems to prevent revenue leakage.

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Software Engineer

Mar 2016 - Jan 2020 (3 years 10 months)

Built Captain Beam (real-time ride dispatch) and Captain/Customer Loyalty platforms using TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS, operating at sub-second latency for millions of concurrent events. Developed ETA calculation engines and intelligent dispatching algorithms and drove a monolith-to-microservices migration before taking on cross-office technical knowledge exchange in Berlin.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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University of Jordan

Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems

2004 - 2008

Earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Information Systems from the University of Jordan in Amman from 2004 to 2008.

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