Rina Sana Ahmed

Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Glade Health, where I lead the growth team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 3. Brought on-call pages for growth down from 35 a week to 1.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   May 2024 - Present
   Glade Health · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Moved 71% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Grew the growth team from 4 to 22 engineers.
2. Full-Stack Engineer

   Dec 2020 - May 2024
   Accenture · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Shipped 18 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Nov 2016 - Aug 2020
   BBC · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Wrote the React service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
   Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 40% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 4.
5. Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2012 - Oct 2014
   Deloitte · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Moved 83% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

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Education

1. Queen's University Belfast

   BSc, Information Technology
   2008 - 2011