About Me

I'm a software engineer based in Boston, focused on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and databases. Originally from Amman, Jordan, I moved to the U.S. for college and have been here ever since. Outside of work, I enjoy reading, playing soccer, and visiting breweries around New England.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Alation, Inc. 2022 - Present

Alation is the agentic data intelligence platform that helps organizations build trusted AI with trusted data. The platform unifies data cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality to enable teams to scale data and AI initiatives.

Developer Platform 2025 - Present

Joined a newly formed Developer Platform team focused on improving developer velocity. Designed and built development environments to accelerate the inner loop. Currently leading the decomposition of a decade-old monolith into a cloud-native stack.

Connectivity Infrastructure 2022 - 2024

Owned and operated the platform infrastructure enabling connections to customers' on-premises and cloud data sources:

  • Alation Agent: An on-premises appliance customers install within their network boundary to securely connect to on-premises databases.
  • Open Connector Framework: A framework that enables Alation and its partners to quickly build connectors for 120+ data sources.
  • Alation Connector Manager: A stack that orchestrates and manages connectors both in Alation's cloud and in customers' environments.
Golang Python Rust Java PostgreSQL Redis AWS Terraform Kubernetes

Senior Software Engineer

Journera, Inc. 2020 - 2022

Journera was a travel technology company that aggregated a real-time view of a traveler's journey across providers.

Worked on the core real-time event-driven data ingestion and correlation engine. Built integrations to onboard travel partners, developed streaming pipelines for airline data, and expanded connections to marketing platforms.

Golang MySQL Memcached Kinesis Kafka AWS Terraform Docker

Software Engineer

Clypd, Inc. 2019 - 2020

Clypd was an advertising technology platform for the TV industry, providing media owners and their partners with programmatic ad solutions, workflow automation, and data-enhanced decisioning.

Streamlined media partner inventory ingestion and optimized the reach engine for reporting.

Golang PostgreSQL Redshift SQS AWS Terraform

Backend Services Engineer

LogRocket, Inc. 2018 - 2019

LogRocket is a session replay and monitoring platform that gives engineering and product teams insight into how users interact with their product.

Joined as the 7th engineer. Wore many hats across data ingestion, browser SDK, search, real-time alerts, cloud infrastructure, and cost optimization. Also contributed to recruiting and customer support.

Node.js Python GraphQL PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Redis GCP Kubernetes

Staff Software Engineer

IBM 2016 - 2018

Started on the Developer Experience team automating SDK generation from API specifications, before joining IBM watsonx Assistant. Built and operated the backend system responsible for managing the lifecycle of inference models—serving, training, versioning, and autoscaling based on load.

Node.js Python Java OpenAPI gRPC MongoDB Kubernetes

Education

B.S. Computer Science, with Honors

University of California, Davis 2012 - 2016

Languages

English (Native) Arabic (Native)

Interests

Reading Weightlifting Traveling Soccer Craft Beer