Asad Rahim Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Working on the Data Pipeline team facilitating smooth data processing and analysis. Primarily utilizing Python and Amazon Web Services.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Created an application that automated testing, reducing testing time for deployments to new AWS regions from 2 weeks of developer time to 1 day • Developed a core software component that uses YAML configuration files to execute code, allowing non-developers to quickly test and deploy software functionality within minutes• Developed the related CI/CD pipeline for testing, building, and deploying the YAML configuration used by the software component using Github Actions and Jenkins builds• Collaborated with multiple different teams within the organization while investigating data usage downstream to determine the business value of creating a software component to remove unused data from further propagation in the data pipeline• Reduced storage costs by 17% (more than an estimated $125,000/month) by removing unused data from further propagation in the data pipeline• Migrated AWS EC2 services to AWS EKS Graviton instances, reducing costs by 14%• Investigated source of data ID duplication and resolved it, resulting in IDs being unique and 20% shorter• Created a feature that allowed PagerDuty first responders to resolve incidents from 2 hours to 15 minutes. This triggered 4 times in 3 months, helping to prevent breach of Service Level Agreements• Implemented a feature that detects and prevents erroneous external API calls from negatively impacting the data pipeline and breaching Service Level Agreements (SLOs) • Updated core APIs that used Python 2.7 to use Python 3.9 and enhanced test coverage from 80% to 95%• Presented demos to the R&D department (~300 people) on the new functionality that was created• Designed a project to create a software component to verify services created in new languages performed the same. Mapped out the steps and provided estimates for long each aspect of the project would take