Hala Karaki
Software Engineer at Square
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHala Karaki is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed, production-grade systems across Microsoft, Uber, and Square. She has deep expertise in cloud-native services, messaging and queueing infrastructure, and has productionized multiple microservices supporting high-scale dispatch and device-to-cloud communication. At Microsoft she worked on edge onboarding and telemetry pipelines for Business AI, contributing to a demoed Build 2017 system, and at Uber she led efforts on airport dispatch queueing and engineering excellence. Now at Square she continues to apply her distributed-systems and DevOps experience to financial and payments platforms. Hala combines strong academic credentials—a near-perfect MS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara—with practical skills in CQRS, event sourcing, and REST API design. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who brings both design rigor and hands-on implementation to complex, latency-sensitive problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.93, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.93 at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
Github Skills (53)
asynchronous10
task-management10
esb10
ecosystem10
cadence10
distributed-systems10
java10
scale10
workflow-automation10
task-scheduler10
golang10
business-logic10
task-queue10
aerospike10
workflow-scheduler10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
halakaraki/cadence-client-1
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Java framework for Cadence Workflow Service
Contributions:124 pushes, 24 branches in 4 months
javacadencejava-frameworkworkflow
halakaraki/cadence
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
scalableasynchronouscadenceorchestrationresilient
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