Ahmad Alhyari
@ahmadalhyari
VP of Engineering and IC-driven platform architect scaling high-throughput B2B2C systems with low-latency, ownership culture, and measurable impact.
What I'm looking for
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
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.
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.
Scaled Mobility, Billing & Pricing platform team from 5 to 14 engineers across 3 functional teams. Built engineering career frameworks improving team retention by 40% and designed compliance solutions saving $250K annually.
Built a unified settlement system and comprehensive invoicing platform to prevent revenue leakage across all Careem business verticals. Led payment settlement and invoicing engineering execution with end-to-end ownership of core financial flows.
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.
Software Engineer
Gac Group / Narzzan
Aug 2008 - Mar 2016 (7 years 7 months)
Designed and delivered custom ERP systems using .NET and Angular.js, plus MVC enterprise applications and Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations. Owned end-to-end release management and infrastructure for delivered solutions.
Education
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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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