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Sebastien Melki

VP Engineering @ Anghami & OSN+

Leading backend engineering for 120M+ users across MENA's premier entertainment platform

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About

Backend engineer and technical leader with a passion for building scalable distributed systems. McGill Computer Engineering graduate (2012-2016) currently architecting streaming infrastructure that powers entertainment for millions across the Middle East and North Africa.

Specializing in high-performance backend systems, real-time streaming infrastructure, and developer tooling. Leading engineering teams at the intersection of music and video streaming technologies.


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sebuf ⭐ 81

Go Protobuf Toolkit for Type-Safe APIs

  • Zero runtime dependencies
  • 85% test coverage
  • Mock server generation
  • OpenAPI v3.1 documentation

Go Protobuf

Cross-Platform Behavioral Analysis SDK

  • iOS, Android, Web support
  • gomobile/WASM powered
  • Real-time anomaly detection
  • Event tracking via protobufs

Go WASM

Digital Library Platform

  • Self-hosted media server
  • Music, movies, audiobooks
  • Built with Go and sebuf
  • Modern Alexandria-inspired

Go Docker


Technical Stack

Languages & Core

Go AWS Kubernetes Docker Helm

Data & Messaging

Kafka NATS Redis PostgreSQL MySQL

Infrastructure & Monitoring

Fastly CloudFlare Prometheus Grafana DataDog SigNoz


Impact & Achievements

120M+ Active Users

4 Months OSN+ Platform Rebuild

50 Engineers Team Leadership

Career Timeline

  • 2024 - Led OSN+ platform complete rebuild in record time following Anghami-OSN merger
  • 2023 - Promoted to VP Engineering at Anghami
  • 2022 - Architected Anghami Chats with WebSocket infrastructure
  • 2021 - Key figure in Anghami's IPO - first MENA tech company on NASDAQ
  • 2019 - Promoted to Engineering Lead at Anghami
  • 2018 - Launched Anghami Live Radios for real-time social music streaming
  • 2017 - Joined Anghami as Backend Engineer
  • 2016 - Graduated from McGill University
  • 2015 - Accepted offers from Amazon, Meta, and Google - chose Amazon
  • 2014 - Software Engineering Intern at Ericsson
  • 2012 - Started Computer Engineering at McGill University

Technical Writing

📖 Deploying Ideas to Production Deep dive into building and deploying production-ready features at scale

📻 Anghami Live Radios Architecture of real-time social music streaming


Current Focus

  • Global Scale: Engineering infrastructure for millions of concurrent streams
  • Edge Computing: Optimizing content delivery with CDN strategies
  • Developer Experience: Building next-gen tools for the Go ecosystem
  • Platform Convergence: Unifying music and video streaming architectures

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