Abdur Rahman Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer Software people rely on, with AI where it helps.
8+ years shipping products end to end: backend, frontend, and now the AI features in between.
Currently
Software engineer at Rakuten Travel Xchange, building and running backend services and AI features for a travel platform used around the clock, at scale.
- AI integration
- AI automation
- Backend systems
- Reliability at scale
Experience
Full history-
2022 to now
Rakuten Travel Xchange
Backend services and AI features for a travel platform used around the clock.
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2021 to 2022
Orpical Group
Led the rebuild of IHSS Connect, a healthcare platform, and built a services marketplace for the US market.
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2018 to 2021
Joules Labs
Built the core application for a high-volume fintech platform handling real-money transactions at scale, and led a small team.
Recommendations
On LinkedIn-
Abdur is honest, hard working, creative, and of course, technically proficient. He has a rare set of skills and work ethic that is hard to find in a software developer.
Stefan Schulz -
Abdur is a great resource who is very good at communication skills, programming and problem solving. He would be an asset to any organization.
Harry Jassal -
Abdur is really calm and collective, he has the skills to architect and be the orchestra of technologies. Also packs pretty neat presentation skills, keeping this on the point and most of all, really fun to work with.
Aryan Ahmed
Recent writing
All writing- You’re Using Claude. Here’s How to Make It More Useful in Your Daily Work. You ask Claude to fix a bug. It makes a reasonable change.
- Why the Best Manufacturer in the Category Is Invisible on Google A manufacturer with a twenty-year reputation asked me why two brands nobody had heard of were beating them in search. It wasn’t a trick.
- Why Lumen Failed: The Rise and Fall of Laravel’s Micro-Framework In 2015, Laravel introduced Lumen, a microframework designed for blazing-fast APIs and microservices. It promised a lighter, speedier alternative to Laravel, ideal for stateless services.
Want to talk?
An idea you’re weighing up, a question about something I’ve written, or a project you’d like a second opinion on: I’d be glad to hear from you.