Summary
Nilufar Bava is a hands-on full-stack engineer and engineering manager with 15+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, developer tools, and customer-facing products across frontend, backend, platform, and AI domains. At Prisma she progressed from Tech Lead to Engineering Manager while continuing to ship end-to-end systems—leading initiatives like an LLM-powered Query Insights feature, a from-scratch docs platform, billing and Stripe reliability infrastructure, and a Postgres provisioning platform. She blends deep TypeScript/React and Node.js expertise with product-minded platform engineering, observability, and CI/CD reliability work. Comfortable both leading hiring and technical strategy and diving into complex implementation, she has a track record of improving developer experience and scaling fast-moving startups. Based in Dubai, she’s open to UAE and EMEA roles at the Staff/Principal, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager level. An uncommon strength is her consistent practice of owning features from prompt engineering and AI integrations through to analytics and frontend UX.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
+2 Science- Biology, +2 Science- Biology at Al-Farook Residential School
Bachelors of Technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors of Technology Computer Science and Engineering at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Rajagiri Valley P.O, Kakkanad, Kochi- 682 039
High School Science, High School Science at Indian School Salalah
English, German