Rahil Bohra
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRahil Bohra is a Lead Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building resilient, full-stack systems across media, finance, and entertainment. He has strong Scala and backend expertise, having delivered production-critical services at The Guardian, Morgan Stanley, and Lightbend, and now leads engineering at The Walt Disney Company. Rahil’s contributions to high-profile projects include identity and authentication work on The Guardian’s frontend, blending frontend and backend ownership to improve user flows like password resets and unsubscribe features. Equally comfortable in consulting and in-house roles, he brings a track record of shipping secure, pragmatic solutions in risk-sensitive and customer-facing domains. Notably, his background combines an MSc in Computer Science with a BA in History, reflecting a habit of balancing technical depth with broader analytical perspective.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (11)
authentication10
javascript10
user-authentication10
front-end-development10
react9
backend9
back-end-development9
html8
playframework7
css7
scala6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 82 PRs, 133 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rahil primarily focused on the "Identity" aspect of the Guardian frontend, contributing to features related to user authentication, email preferences, and consent management. Their commits include changes to controllers, views, and JavaScript code, indicating involvement in both frontend and backend components. They also addressed bug fixes and implemented new features within the identity service, such as a password reset flow and an unsubscribe-from-all feature.
productionguardian
guardian/mongo-connector-postgresql-jsonb
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
syncjsonbconnectormongodata-sync
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