Staff Software and Site Reliability Engineer with 20+ years of experience, specializing in backend development, infrastructure design, and scaling engineering teams. Proven track record in both startups and large companies (Google, Motive (formerly KeepTruckin)). Scaled engineering teams from 30 to 500+ at KeepTruckin while improving system performance by 27%. Passionate about Go, cloud technologies, and building high-performing systems. Contributor to NixOS and passionate about building developer tools.
Looking for fractional CTO or senior engineering roles. Available anywhere from 10 to 40 hours per week.
SEEKING WORK, San Francisco Bay Area (UTC-8), remote work OK.
Flexible working hours, and can accommodate most timezones.
Hi, I'm Wael, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Staff Software engineer, and Senior Architect. I specialize in site reliability, system architecture, and developer productivity.
I have 20+ years of experience, an ex-Googler, and a founder. I've done both remote and on-premise work for local and international clients.
Technologies:
Kubernetes, Docker, Linux/macOS, Golang, Python, Nix, and Bazel, among others.
I tested 60k+ NAR files to find out.
Compressed: 6.4% dedup hit rate Uncompressed: 47.8% dedup hit rate
Decompression wins, saving 18% in total storage.
(P.S. To handle the pipeline throughput, I also built the fastest FastCDC implementation in Go: https://github.com/kalbasit/fastcdc)