Summary
Rashad Mughal is a pragmatic contract Kotlin developer with 9 years of experience building and migrating large-scale, secure backend systems across public sector and consumer platforms. He excels at greenfield projects and complex migrations—having moved thousands of suppliers from a PHP monolith to microservices on GCP and built PGP-secured file exchange services for HMRC—while prioritising low-complexity, high-impact delivery. Comfortable across JVM languages and cloud ecosystems, he has implemented event-driven architectures with Kafka/RabbitMQ, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS/GCP infrastructure. Based in Blackburn, he combines engineering curiosity and tenacity with a knack for shipping production-quality features quickly, and he often surfaces pragmatic security and operational considerations early in designs.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at The University of Manchester