Bilawal Hameed
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarBilawal Hameed is a Senior Software Engineer and AI engineering lead with 11 years of experience building scalable, product-focused systems across startups and large tech companies. Currently at Spotify, he has led backend initiatives used by hundreds of millions of users and helped scale developer tooling (Backstage TechDocs) to thousands of engineers worldwide. As an early founding engineer at TrueBiz he built the initial product and cloud infrastructure that helped the startup secure investment and early revenue, demonstrating strong end-to-end product instincts. He has a track record of shipping cross-platform messaging and discovery features, and of growing teams and systems from zero to production scale. Based in Dubai, he blends generalist engineering with practical AI work and a history of moving quickly between high-impact roles. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs deep technical craft with an eye for product and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (155)
postgresql10
rspec10
jshint10
spotify-api10
gcp10
infrastructure10
dx10
serverless10
microservices10
backend10
spotify10
backend-framework10
markdown10
chatgpt10
formatter10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bih/spotify-ruby
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
🎶 🌈 The developer-friendly, opinionated Ruby SDK for Spotify.
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 87 commits in 4 years 8 months
mit-licenseruby-gemrubyspotifysdk
spotify/ts-interface-loader
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Webpack support for validating TypeScript definitions at runtime.
Contributions:3 reviews, 22 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 9 months
resolvewebpack-loadertypescript-definitionsvalidationtypechecking
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