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.
10 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