CTO, Backend Maestro & Chief Schema Whisperer
Abdul M. Fahim
If it runs at scale, it runs on his rules.
03The Long Story
WHO ABDUL REALLY IS.
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Fahim treats the backend like an orchestra — every service in time, nothing out of place, and no soloist louder than the song. As Octarnal's CTO he owns the parts of the product nobody sees but everybody depends on: the databases, the APIs, the auth, the infrastructure that has to be awake at three in the morning. He has scaled systems from their first request to their millionth, and he treats every millisecond of latency as a personal insult. He designs data models the way an architect designs a building — assuming it will still be standing, and growing, ten years from now.
What He Owns
ABDUL’S
WHEELHOUSE.
Backend Architecture
Databases
System Design
Tools Of The Trade
ABDUL’S
TECH SPHERE.
Abdul’s Stack
By The Numbers
NUMBERS DON’T LIE.
0+
APIs Built
0k
Queries Tuned
0.0%
Uptime
Rapid Fire
QUICK — DON’T THINK.
Boring or clever?
Boring and bulletproof.
Schema first?
Always. The rest follows.
SQL or NoSQL?
Whichever the data actually needs.
Best backend compliment?
Nobody ever mentions it.
3am outage?
Read the logs, not the panic.
Off The Clock
ABDUL, UNPLUGGED
“A clean schema today saves a rewrite next year.”
- Can name the time complexity of your code before you finish typing it.
- Thinks in schemas, dreams in indexes.
Something surfaces
In Their Words
WHAT THE CREW
SAYS ABOUT ABDUL.
If the product just works and nobody's panicking at 3am, that's Fahim doing his job too well to notice.
He designs schemas like buildings — still standing ten years out. I deploy them without a second thought.
He'll name the time complexity of my function before I finish typing it, kindly. Terrifying and helpful.
The Rest Of The Crew
MEET THE OTHERS.
Let’s Build Something
WANT ABDUL ON YOUR NEXT PROJECT?
The whole Octarnal crew ships together — strategy, design and engineering under one roof.
