Rahma Gillan
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRahma Gillan is a software engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, graduating from University of Waterloo in 2024 with a combined CS/BBA background and eight years of practical engineering experience across finance, games, and infrastructure. She has shipped features and prototypes at firms including Palantir, Bloomberg, Riot Games, and DRW, with internships focused on secure collaboration, liquidity discovery, and event-driven trading. Comfortable across backend systems and product-focused teams, she brings both technical depth and business context from her dual-degree training. Rahma has also contributed to large hackathon operations at Hack the North, leading logistics and judging efforts that sharpened her cross-functional coordination skills. Now exploring 2024 new-grad opportunities, she combines high-velocity delivery experience from top-tier tech and finance internships with a knack for translating complex domain needs into robust software. An early pattern in her career is choosing roles that sit at the intersection of systems engineering and real-world product impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityVincent Massey Secondary SchoolBachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (10)
react-firebase9
discord-bot6
redux5
react5
firebase5
api5
nodejs4
compilation2
simulator2
simulation2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Erica-Wang/timecard
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 days
Aphexis/bike-share
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
ElleHacks 2020 submission
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 day
react
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