Engineering leader and full-stack builder with 12+ years of experience shipping and scaling fintech and digital platforms across Jordan, UAE, and KSA.
I work at the intersection of engineering execution and product outcomes: building reliable systems, scaling teams, and delivering customer-facing products in regulated environments.
- Full-stack product development in fintech and digital banking
- Backend services, APIs, and microservices architecture
- Platform reliability, DevSecOps, and CI/CD maturity
- Product management and roadmap execution for high-impact delivery
- Team scaling, hiring, mentoring, and engineering culture
- Improved platform uptime from 99.5% to 99.99%
- Helped scale teams from 2 to 10, and led organizations of 40+
- Built systems processing ~700K events/day
- Reduced deployment lead time by 60%
- Increased transaction throughput by 45%
- Reduced annual cloud cost by 70%
- Contributed to a 10x increase in successful order volume
- Shipped products used by 10,000+ businesses and 50,000+ end customers
- Designing resilient, API-first financial platforms
- Scaling engineering velocity without sacrificing quality
- Product-engineering collaboration in regulated domains
- Performance optimization and observability for growth-stage systems
Full Stack Engineering Backend Systems API Design Microservices Cloud Infrastructure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) CI/CD DevSecOps Performance Optimization Incident Management Product Management Roadmap Prioritization
- Qashio: Engineering Manager (fintech platform scale, audit systems, reliability)
- NylaBank: Head of Product and Technology (digital banking and wallet delivery)
- Wahed: Senior Engineering Manager (banking platform growth)
- Petromin: Technology Leader / CPTO (marketplace and platform transformation)
- Fetchr: Engineering Manager (high-volume logistics product platform)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alihalabyah/
- GitHub: https://github.com/alihalabyah
- Medium: https://alihalabyah.medium.com/
If you're building in fintech, payments, wallets, spend management, or digital banking, I’m always open to discussing product-platform strategy, scaling engineering organizations, and solving hard reliability problems.
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