Rahiel Kasim
Software Developer at Kabisa - Software Artisans
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRahiel Kasim is a pragmatic software developer with 12 years of experience building web apps and APIs using Python (Flask, Django, FastAPI), MariaDB/MongoDB, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontends. He combines a physicist’s analytical rigor with hands-on engineering—shipping clean, refactored code in Scrum teams at Kabisa and earlier research-driven projects at VU Amsterdam and AMOLF. Rahiel contributes to notable open-source projects such as python-telegram-bot and maintains practical CLI tooling like telegram-send, where he added media support and multi-config flexibility. Based in Amsterdam, he prefers collaborative environments and brings a track record of improving robustness and developer ergonomics through thoughtful refactors and solid testing.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Astronomy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (19)
python10
telegram-bot-api10
telegram10
command-line10
telegram-bot10
r-telegram-bot10
bot-framework10
exception-handling9
configparser9
web-framework8
markdown-it8
argparse8
app-framework8
application-framework8
markdown8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rahiel/telegram-send
Apr 2016 - May 2022
Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 18 PRs, 105 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rahiel primarily contributed to the `telegram-send` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to sending messages and files over Telegram. Their work included adding support for multiple configuration files, sending images with captions, and integrating the command-line tool with file managers. The user also refactored code and enhanced the functionality of the tool, making it more versatile for sending various types of media.
telegram-botpythonsend-messagestelegramcommand-line
python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
We have made you a wrapper you can't refuse
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 52 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rahiel primarily contributed to the examples within the repository. Their commits focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the example Telegram bots, echobot, and roboed. The changes included implementing long polling for update retrieval, adding chat actions, improving exception handling, and addressing unauthorized access issues within the bot's operations. Additionally, the user addressed the license badge within the repository.
telegram-botpythonbotframeworktelegram
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