Mohammad Al-Khani

Experience

14 years, five companies

Automotive, consumer tech, fintech, enterprise SaaS and databases. Full history on LinkedIn; the case studies cover the work itself.

  1. Oct 2025 – present
    Austin, Texas

    General Motors

    Staff Software Architect & Backend Engineering Lead

    • Technical lead and architect across distributed systems, platform engineering, data architecture and AI governance.
    • Leads platform strategy: GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud foundations on AWS and Azure.
    • Sets engineering standards for quality, testing, reliability (SLOs) and AI-assisted development.
    • Mentors engineers and interviews senior and staff candidates.
  2. Oct 2022 – Oct 2025
    Remote

    Life360

    Senior Backend Engineer (staff-scope)

    • Staff-scope engineer on an optimization team covering performance, reliability and cloud cost.
    • Led platform-level initiatives across 30+ Java microservices under 99.999% availability SLOs.
    • Delivered foundational platform templates adopted by 10+ teams; mentored engineers through promotion.
  3. Oct 2020 – Oct 2021
    Remote

    Upstart

    Founding Senior Backend Engineer

    • Founding senior engineer on a new product team; owned service architecture, reliability and on-call.
    • Co-founded the engineering-wide SQL performance review committee.
    • Led the monitoring migration to Datadog and set automated testing standards.
  4. Oct 2019 – Oct 2020
    Milpitas, California

    CodeObjects

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Led architecture for an enterprise SaaS platform and its authentication and authorization layer.
    • Subject matter expert for access control; resolved critical customer production issues.
  5. Oct 2012 – Oct 2019
    Redwood City, California

    Oracle

    Senior Software Engineer & Software Engineer

    • Built database performance monitoring and tuning tools used by DBAs at large enterprises.
    • Worked across the stack: Java backend, metric collection, CLI tooling and data visualization.

Skills

LanguagesJava, Python, SQL, Go, Ruby, Bash
FrameworksSpring Boot, Flask, FastAPI, Django, Rails
DataPostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kinesis
Cloud & platformAWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Atlantis, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker
ObservabilityOpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic
APIsREST, gRPC, GraphQL, Protobuf 3, OpenAPI

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  • B.S. Computer Science, Prince Sultan University
  • Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert · Software Architecture: Domain-Driven Design · Triplebyte Certified · R Programming