Abdullah Alaqeel
Staff Platform Engineer
Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdullah Alaqeel is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Dammam with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience tools. He has led product and engineering efforts across startups and scale-ups—shipping web marketplaces, payment platforms, and invoicing solutions while wearing founding-stage hats like CTO and CPO. Technically fluent in GitOps, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and observability, he also contributed to the well-known django-auditlog project by improving IPv6 parsing, timestamp overrides, and Correlation ID support to strengthen auditability. Abdullah combines hands-on platform work with a track record of improving developer productivity and refactoring legacy systems for scale. He mentors engineers, improves onboarding, and previously taught programming to kids and undergraduates, showing a consistent interest in education and community impact. Passionate about using engineering to bridge social gaps, he aims to leave lasting, auditable improvements in the systems he touches.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at George Mason University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (10)
audit10
middleware10
auditing10
python10
django10
pytest9
database9
testing9
data-models9
databases9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-auditlog
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A Django app that keeps a log of changes made to an object.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 5 commits, 23 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Abdullah primarily contributed to the Django-based audit logging application by fixing bugs and adding new features. They addressed issues related to parsing IPv6 addresses in the middleware. Additionally, they introduced functionality to make the timestamp in LogEntry overwritable and added support for Correlation IDs, enhancing the logging capabilities of the application. These changes reflect a focus on improving data accuracy, customization, and integration within the audit logging framework.
djangopythonauditing
aqeelat/HyperMinHash-java
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Union, intersection, and set cardinality in loglog space
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
loglogcardinalitylogging
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