Saad Ismail
Senior Backend Engineer at Bolt
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolSaad Ismail is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient backend systems and DevOps pipelines across ridehailing, food tech, and payments. Based in Tallinn, he has driven platform improvements at Bolt and Careem—shipping Java, Golang and Kotlin services, containerizing workloads to Kubernetes, and migrating observability to Prometheus to cut deployment time and costs. He combines deep Linux sysadmin and AWS expertise with practical SRE practices, having reduced Change Lead Time from ~8 hours to under an hour through pre-rollout tests and improved pipelines. A proven technical lead, he now splits his time between senior engineering at Modash and leadership responsibilities at Bolt, balancing hands-on coding with team delivery. Notably, he has experience replacing monolithic data dependencies by consuming Kafka compacted topics, reflecting a pragmatic approach to scalability and data ownership. Currently completing a Computer Science degree while driving production-grade systems, he blends strong academic grounding with relentless operational focus.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
Stackoverflow
1,440reputation
124kreached
18answers
8questions
mysql
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command-line
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Github Skills (169)
flutter-plugin10
location10
geolocation10
geo10
middleware9
javascript9
geolocator9
php-fpm9
chat9
open-source9
command-line9
mysql9
router9
graph9
webrtc9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
saadismail/useful-bash-scripts
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
Velocity-Barricade/web
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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