Dhiren M.

Engineering Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates12 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled daily order capacity from 25K to 300K.
Reduced mobile app load time by 67%.
Built AI-powered alert detection system.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy E-commerce Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and Microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesTest Automation

Other Skills

C#.Net 8KafkaPostgreSQLRedisAWSKubernetesDockerKotlinJavaSeleniumEngineering LeadershipAI-Driven Engineering LeadershipStrategic Technical Vision & ArchitectureDigital Transformation in Emerging Markets

About

I build backend systems that handle real scale. At Talabat (Delivery Hero), I build systems in one of the Middle East's fastest-growing Q-Commerce verticals — scaling daily order capacity from 25K to 300K, with €40M+ incremental GMV impact in a single year. My sweet spot is the intersection of distributed systems architecture and business impact: designing event-driven systems with Kafka and SQS, optimizing critical paths that cut app load times by 67%, and building resilient microservices on Kubernetes that handle millions of daily transactions. Before Talabat, I spent 6 years at OLX Group (Berlin), where I decoupled a monolithic messaging platform into a scalable multi-channel notification service — growing throughput from 400 to 1,500 RPS while reducing customer churn by 25%. Tech I work with daily: Java, Kotlin, C#, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, AWS (Kinesis, SQS, DynamoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform. Certified: CKAD (Kubernetes) | AWS Solutions Architect Associate Currently exploring how AI tooling transforms engineering productivity — built an AI-powered alert detection system to automate monitoring and reduce on-call fatigue. Open to connecting on distributed systems, platform engineering, and scaling consumer products.

Experience

Talabat

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Lead the technical direction for Talabat's G&R Vertical, owning systems that process 300K+ daily orders across grocery and retail.
Re-designed the grocery and retail shopping experience, introducing modular service boundaries that accelerated feature delivery by 3x.
Led performance optimization of the mobile app's critical path — reduced load time from 6s to 1.5s (67% improvement) through backend API optimization and caching strategies
Designed deployment safeguards including canary releases and automated rollback mechanisms that prevented multiple potential production incidents.
Built an AI-powered alert detection bot to automate monitoring, reducing alert fatigue across engineering teams.
Contributed to an AdTech solution generating €1.2M in profits (FY 2022-23)
Team: Lead a cross-functional squad of 8 (backend, mobile, design, product) — €50M GMV generated in 2025.
Stack: C#, .Net 8, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

C#.Net 8KafkaPostgreSQLRedisAWS+4

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Joined as senior IC to build foundational backend services for Talabat's Q-Commerce expansion in the UAE market
Designed and implemented core backend services powering the grocery and retail shopping flow using C#/.Net 8
Built event-driven integrations with Kafka for order state management
Participated in designing the AdTech solution architecture — system generated €1.2M in first-year profits
Drove incremental GMV of €40M through backend optimizations improving user shopping experience
Stack: C#, .NET 8, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker

C#.NET 8KafkaPostgreSQLAWSDocker+2

Olx group

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Impact: Building Comms shared service for the entire group resulting in increasing User engagement by 40%, and reducing customer churn by 25%.
Successfully decoupled the messaging platform from monolith and scaled it to accommodate growth, increasing capacity from 400 requests per second (RPS) to 1500 RPS.
Engineered a highly scalable messaging platform enabling multi-channel notifications (SMS, email, push notifications) across Android, iOS, and web.

AWSKotlinDistributed Systems

Software Development Engineer in Test

Dec 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Designed and crafted a comprehensive testing framework for both mobile and backend applications, reducing testing time by 3 days.
Introduced CI/CD to the tech team, got everyone on board, and created pipelines.

Medlife.com

Sr QA Engineer

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Created Test Framework and test cases for complete tech stack. The tests greatly improved the deployment time and frequency, reducing production issues and outages.

JavaSeleniumTest Automation

Snapdeal

Software Development Engineer in Test

Oct 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Developed automated test cases for Android and iOS using Android Testing Framework and Appium. The test helped the team to reduce the Lead time to deploy from 15 days to just 3 days.
Developed automated test cases Backend API(s). The tests helped the team to deploy backend changes with confidence.