Summary
Nyal Sadiq is a Founding Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and data systems, currently based in London and leading early-stage product engineering at Granola. He has deep hands-on experience from internships to senior roles at Amazon, where he scaled IMDb’s content processing and quality systems, and has worked across full-stack stacks including React, Django, Kubernetes and AWS. Comfortable shipping both new internal products and customer-facing features, he has repeatedly tackled scalability and reliability challenges—introducing async processing, improving file search and production availability. Nyal combines startup agility (Wildcat Applications) with big-tech operational rigor, pairing data-aware engineering with pragmatic product delivery. An inclination for automation and infrastructure improvements shows through recurring work on ETL, Celery, and platform reliability that accelerates teams and reduces manual effort.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science with Honours Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus