Wasim Rahman

Overview

I work on developer tools at Glade AI in Mumbai. Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 44% in two quarters. Most at home with LSP and compilers. Learning woodworking.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Glade AI · 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Backed 16 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
   • Led or co-led 35 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Engineering Manager

   Oct 2023 - Feb 2026
   HCLTech · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped 30 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Oct 2023
   BigBasket · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 5.
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
   Siemens · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Software Engineer

   Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
   Nykaa · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 5.
   • Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 33 million requests a day.

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Education

1. IIT Madras

   B.Tech, Mathematics
   2010 - 2014