Abdullah Alqahtani
Lead Software Engineer at Vertus
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdullah Alqahtani is a Senior Software Engineer based in Riyadh with six years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, microservices backends and payment gateways. He designs and operates production-grade systems using FastAPI, Go, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, and CI/CD, having led BFF and fintech backends, architected HA Keycloak deployments, and optimized performance via async patterns and autoscaling. Abdullah combines developer and DevOps ownership—provisioning infra, automating backups, and setting up monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana) while applying FinOps to control cloud spend. He is an active open-source maintainer and publisher (multiple PyPI packages and a FastAPI Helm chart) and documents reproducible architectures in public repos. Notably, he migrated orchestrators from Python to Go to cut latency and has experience integrating LLMs into BFF orchestrators, reflecting a bias for pragmatic performance and automation.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM
English, Arabic
Github Skills (124)
dependency-management10
python10
google-cloud10
cdr10
githubactions10
dependency-manager10
figma10
packaging10
aws10
flowbite10
python-packaging9
golang9
cli9
hugo9
terraform9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
qahta0/LIPRESTfulAPI
Aug 2021 - Sep 2023
This is a RESTful api for library app developed using express js and MySQL for the database using sequelize ORM. it contains JWT to secure some endpoints with access token, and centralized error handler as a middleware. It uses express-validator to validate body request.
Contributions:167 pushes in 2 years
expressendpointsapp-librarycentralizedhandler
anqorithm/naqa-api
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Naqa API is a RESTful service designed to provide data on the purification process of Saudi stocks.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 77 pushes in 2 months
analysisanalyticsdockergcpgolang
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