Gabriel Ajabahian
Senior Principal Engineer Associate Partner
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolGabriel Ajabahian is a Senior Principal Engineer and Associate Partner based in Dubai with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, enterprise-grade software and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java/Scala and JavaScript with practical DevOps and Kubernetes experience to deliver resilient microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and secure production deployments. Gabriel has a strong track record of pioneering new technologies and engineering practices at scale—having led transformations at McKinsey/QuantumBlack and built platform automation for organizations like Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Warba Bank. Comfortable presenting to both technical and executive audiences, he emphasizes transparency, customer-centric outcomes, and measurable product impact. He pairs technical depth with business acumen (Executive MBA) and a history of integrating heterogeneous systems across platforms. A pragmatic strategist and team builder, he often drives adoption of modern practices by translating complex architectures into operational engineering playbooks.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Software development & Engineering Computer Engineering, Software development & Engineering Computer Engineering at The Open UniversityAlgorithms: Design and Analysis Engineering & Computer Science, Algorithms: Design and Analysis Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford Continuing StudiesExecutive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at Swiss School of Management
English, Dutch, Arabic, Armenian
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Github Skills (84)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gabriel-a/replication-manager
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 days
signalmysql-replicationmysqlreplication-managermrm
gabriel-a/maven-test-nexs
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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