About New Scale

Hi, I'm Mina Sonbol.

I build data engines that pay for themselves—so e-commerce teams can stop arguing about numbers and start acting on them.

For more than 15 years I’ve been the person companies call when their data stops keeping up with their growth.

I started at Orange in Cairo, running the data warehouse for one of the region’s largest telecom operators—ETL on IBM DataStage, a Teradata data model, and churn and segmentation models that protected millions in revenue.

After a master’s in Data Analytics at the University of Central Florida, I worked in U.S. tech: as a Senior Data Scientist at Persado, leading hundreds of A/B tests for enterprise brands, and at Afiniti, building revenue reconciliation pipelines and Power BI reporting.

Today I’m a Senior Data Engineer at Silverkey, where I designed and run the BigQuery warehouse behind Dabdoob, a multinational e-commerce platform in the GCC. That’s where New Scale began. I saw first-hand how cash-on-delivery, BNPL, marketplace fees and multi-hub inventory quietly eat into margin—and how much profit a well-built data engine can recover.

New Scale packages that experience for scaling e-commerce brands: a clear audit, a prioritized plan, and a turnkey build your team can own.

15+
years in data engineering, analytics and AI
4B
records in the GCC e-commerce warehouse I built
600+
A/B tests led across 15 enterprise accounts
~$3M
revenue preserved by a churn model

Selected results

A single source of truth for GCC e-commerce

Designed, built and maintain the BigQuery warehouse for Dabdoob (500K+ users, 1,500 daily orders), unifying sales, inventory, payments, Mixpanel, Adjust and promo data. 4 billion records, 3× faster ingestion.

Fewer stock-outs, more sales

Automated merchandising reports and real-time restocking alerts in Python and SQL cut stock-outs by 15% and lifted sales of flagged items by 10%.

A promo engine that drives engagement

Led strategy, design and QA for a promo engine with dynamic offer stacking, margin-based allocation and user segmentation—30% engagement among targeted customers within three months.

3PL integration across three regions

Coordinated teams in India, Egypt and the GCC to integrate a third-party logistics provider for purchases, returns, purchase orders and warehouse transfers, reducing warehouse rental costs.

AI-powered product discovery

Architected a recommendation platform (+4% click-to-add-to-cart) and a vector-search "Gift Finder" (+2% conversion) on top of BigQuery and FastAPI.

Experimentation at scale

At Persado, ran 600+ A/B tests that lifted conversion by 9.6% and revenue by 10.3% across 15 accounts.

Faster month-end close

At Afiniti, built a PL/SQL reconciliation pipeline that cut monthly revenue reconciliation time by 95%.

Churn prevention for a telecom leader

At Orange, refined a churn model that retained 77% of high-risk subscribers in the top revenue segment—nearly $3M in preserved revenue.

Career

  1. 2024 – present

    Senior Data Engineer

    Silverkey · Cairo

    Data lead for Dabdoob, a multinational GCC e-commerce platform: BigQuery warehouse, 3PL integration, promo engine and AI recommendations. Also improved Power BI models for a renewable-energy government agency, planned a government analytics platform with the Ministry of Planning, and founded Silverkey's data engineering internship program.

  2. 2023 – 2024

    Senior Data Analyst, Client Data Services

    Afiniti · Washington, DC

    Revenue reconciliation pipelines, lift-persistence dashboards in Power BI, and tenure analysis that informed pricing strategy.

  3. 2021 – 2023

    Senior Data Scientist

    Persado · New York

    Led experimentation and statistical analysis for enterprise clients and built 35 KPI dashboards on Snowflake, Sisense and Sigma.

  4. 2010 – 2019

    Senior Data Warehouse Supervisor

    Orange · Cairo

    Adapted the Teradata Communications Data Model for France Telecom requirements, ran DataStage ETL, built churn and geo-segmentation models, and owned daily KPI reporting.

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