Amreen Sara Rashid

Senior Software Engineer, Northgate Technologies - Rust · compilers · VS Code extensions

Northgate Technologies

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

9+ years experience

NIT Trichy

English, Hindi, Kannada

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Overview

Currently at Northgate Technologies, where I work on developer tools. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 36 a week to 3. Before that: Meesho and Asian Paints. Most at home with Rust and TypeScript.

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Skills

RustLSPKubernetesTypeScriptVS Code extensionscompilers

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Office hours for early-stage teams: developer tools and Kubernetes

Topics: developer tools, compilers, TypeScript
Format: Office hours
Terms: Paid
Capacity: One call a month
Best for: First-time founders

9 years of developer tools. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKrustkubernetesvs code extensions

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2025 - Present
Northgate Technologies · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
- Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 36 a week to 4.
- Moved 69% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Software Engineer
Oct 2022 - Jun 2025
Meesho · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 760ms to 66ms.
Software Engineer
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Asian Paints · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Moved 62% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 6.
Software Engineer
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Airtel · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 884ms to 112ms.
- Wrote the Rust service that now handles 44 million requests a day.
Software Engineer
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Nykaa · 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 70 million requests a day.

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Education

NIT Trichy
B.Tech, Mathematics
2012 - 2016

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