Summary
Babak Dabagh is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable services and data-driven features, currently an SDE II on Amazon’s Kindle Study Solutions team. He has a strong track record at Whitepages designing microservices, real-time lookups, and working with large-scale data stores (Cassandra-Titan) using Scala and Akka to improve consistency and performance. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and team leadership, he’s shipped systems that simplified internal data retrieval and monitoring while debugging multi-terabyte datasets. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and grounded in a University of Washington CS background, he blends practical backend craftsmanship with an eye for operational reliability and developer-friendly APIs. An undeclared but consistent theme in his career is moving monolithic data access patterns toward microservice architectures to reduce latency and complexity.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
3.61, 3.61 at University of Washington