Resume
Abdullah Rahman
Full-Stack Engineer & Open Source Maintainer
Remote (UTC+1) he/him 11+ years experience
5 roles 8 skills 3 certs 3 languages
Experience
Junior Developer
Freelance · Cairo
- Built websites for 15 small businesses
- Learned to estimate, communicate, and ship under real constraints
Senior Software Engineer
Stripe · Remote
- Built the payment reconciliation engine processing $2B+ monthly
- Led migration to a new API architecture
- Reduced p99 latency by 45% through targeted optimizations
- Authored the internal RFC process now used across 4 teams
Principal Engineer
Vercel · Remote
- Led the architecture for the next-generation build system
- Reduced build times by 60% across the platform
- Mentored a team of 8 engineers through structured 1:1s
- Open-sourced 3 internal tools adopted by 50k+ developers
- Drove the migration from a monolithic builder to a distributed pipeline
Full-Stack Developer
A Cairo Startup · Cairo
- Built the MVP that raised a seed round
- Wore every hat — frontend, backend, infra, support
Software Engineer
Shopify · Remote
- Worked on the storefront rendering pipeline serving 1M+ merchants
- Built tooling used by 1M+ merchants
- Reduced storefront TTFB by 35% through edge caching
Education
Frontend Masters
Professional Path, Web Performance
2021 — 2022
MIT OpenCourseWare
Self-study, Distributed Systems
2019 — 2020
Cairo University
BSc, Computer Science
2013 — 2017
Skills
Frameworks
Astro Expert
React Expert
Specialties
Web Performance Expert
Edge Computing Expert
Backend
Node.js Expert
Databases
PostgreSQL Advanced
Languages
TypeScript Expert
Rust Advanced
Certifications
Cloudflare Workers Expert
Cloudflare · 2023
ID: CF-WE-11223
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google · 2020
ID: GCP-PCA-67890
Languages
Arabic Native
French Conversational
English Fluent