Aisha Zara Rahman

Overview

I've spent 11 years on real-time systems - first at Rightmove, now at Vodafone. Moved 82% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: BBC and Lloyds Banking Group. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Oct 2022 - Present
   Vodafone · 4 yr · Full-time · London, UK
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 596ms to 149ms.
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 23 a week to 4.
   • Moved 66% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
   BBC · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Shipped 21 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
   Lloyds Banking Group · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 42% in two quarters.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Apr 2019
   Rightmove · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Moved 66% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Durham University

   BA, Electrical Engineering
   2012 - 2015