whoami && uptime

Servant-leader with a proven track record of scaling engineering teams, optimizing systems and driving cost-efficient initiatives.

With 12+ years of experience across startups and enterprises, I specialize in balancing leadership with hands-on contributions, ensuring engineering excellence, operational efficiency and measurable business impact.

I've led teams that:

  • Delivered $550K in annual savings through technical migrations and resource optimizations
  • Decreased test failure rates by 58% within 3 months
  • Maintained 90% team retention and 50+ eNPS for 3 years
  • Enhanced platform resilience by cutting RTO/RPO from 24 hours to 15 minutes

My leadership philosophy centers on empowering teams, driving technical excellence and aligning engineering efforts with business objectives.


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Engineering

  • Architecture Design
  • Cloud-Native Solutions
  • System Optimization
  • C#, JavaScript, Go, SQL
  • TDD & Quality Assurance
  • Security & Compliance

Leadership

  • Mentorship & Coaching
  • Team Building & Scaling
  • Business Alignment
  • Process Design
  • Customer Centricity
  • Goal-Oriented Execution

Tools & Platforms

  • GitHub, Jira, Confluence
  • Google Cloud, Azure
  • DataDog, Sentry
  • AI, LLMs, Prompting
  • Cursor, Prisma, Lucid

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"Ibrahim helped me to break into software engineering as a student of engineering. I really appreciate his guidance."

Ignitius, Entrepreneur / Consultant in Zambia

"I had the pleasure of managing Ibrahim when I was at Optimizely. Ibrahim is an excellent engineer, team builder, organization builder, leader and mentor. I regularly trusted him with the most ambitious visions and the most gnarly challenges and Ibrahim consistently tackled them. I would gladly work with Ibrahim again anywhere."

Principal Data Scientist, Enterprise SaaS Company

"Everybody says someone is good, what's special about that! The special is, he worked so good at brainstation-23 that client gave him an iPhone as gift, which is extremely unusual, he is so good!"

CEO, Tech Consultancy Firm

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