I build systems that move 2 million searches a day — and lead the engineers who keep them flying.
Qalib Abbas — Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead at Emirates Airline, Dubai. Six years shipping production systems for airlines, governments, and my own multi-market SaaS.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- AWS / EKS
Production Telemetry — Systems I’ve Shipped
● All Systems Operational
Figures from production systems at Emirates Airline and Sofra — details on request
Where I’ve shipped
Airline scale, government constraints, founder ownership — three different kinds of hard.
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Emirates Airline
- Own the AI chatbot serving 500K+ monthly customer interactions — architecture, delivery, and the team behind it
- Built and scaled the flight search engine to 2M+ daily searches on AWS EKS
- Lead engineers across the stack: React/Next.js frontends, Node/GraphQL services, Kubernetes infrastructure
Technical Lead / Full Stack Developer
Dept. of Municipal Affairs & Transport — TAMM
- Led delivery on TAMM — Abu Dhabi's unified government services platform used by residents across the emirate
- Government scale means government constraints: security review, uptime mandates, zero-failure launches
Full Stack Developer
PwC UAE — TAMM Programme
- Built core citizen-facing services under PwC's government contract — promoted into the lead role above
Sofra (صُفرة)
Most engineers talk about wanting to build a product. This one is live: a multi-tenant restaurant SaaS I architected and built end-to-end — the strongest evidence I can own a system from whiteboard to production.
Notes from the build
Engineering write-ups from systems I actually run. New one most weeks.