Summary
Dia Kharrat is a seasoned tech leader and staff software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and backend infrastructure across Silicon Valley giants. Currently a Tech Lead Manager at Google, she previously engineered large-scale messaging and analytics platforms at Apple, Yahoo, and BrightRoll, handling systems that deliver millions of notifications per second and process billions of events daily. Her background spans systems architecture, fault-tolerant data platforms, and performance-sensitive desktop and embedded software from NVIDIA to early startup CTO work at Pixineers. Dia blends hands-on design and coding with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices—to turn complex distributed requirements into reliable production services. She also has deep academic grounding in computer engineering and software engineering from Western, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon, which informs her rigorous approach to system design. An engineer-founder at heart, she pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with proven experience operating at the intersection of scale, reliability, and real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Western University
Master's Degree, Software Engineering, 4.01, Master's Degree, Software Engineering, 4.01 at Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University