Raas Ahsan
Principal Engineer at Salesforce
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaas Ahsan is a Principal Engineer based in Houston with 11 years building distributed systems, functional programming libraries, and developer-focused tooling. He has moved between startup and scale environments—Game Jolt, Disney Streaming, QuickNode, Graphiant—and now Salesforce, bringing pragmatic architectural judgement to cloud-native and streaming platforms. A long-time Scala community maintainer and contributor, he is a Cats Effect maintainer and focuses on enabling other developers through robust abstractions and libraries. With dual academic roots in computer science and mathematics, he blends theoretical rigor with production experience to design reliable, composable systems that simplify complex concurrency and resource management.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University
Github Skills (200)
concurrent-programming10
continuation10
parser10
http10
effects10
http-client10
declarative10
extensible10
effector10
stream-processing10
concurrency10
streaming10
javascript10
cats-effect10
modular10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
RaasAhsan/raasahsan.github.io
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
RaasAhsan/http4s
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Contributions:174 pushes, 38 branches in 11 months
idiomaticscala
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