Saad Rashid
Lead Software Engineer at Elsevier
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSaad Rashid is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems, specialising in Java, Spring, microservices, Kafka and the Hadoop/Spark big data ecosystem. He has repeatedly built production-grade data pipelines and analytics platforms for media, telecom, energy and e-commerce firms, turning petabytes of structured and unstructured data into actionable insight. Comfortable across cloud (AWS EC2, S3, EMR, Neptune), NoSQL (HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB) and graph databases, he blends backend architecture with distributed ML and search expertise. Saad pairs hands-on development with deployment engineering—TDD/BDD, CI/CD and performance testing—plus deep telecom OSS/BSS and CDR mediation experience that few generalist engineers possess. Based in Coventry, he moves quickly between research-proof-of-concept work and enterprise delivery, mentoring teams while shaping resilient, high-throughput systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ACCP (Aptech Certified Computer Professional) Information Technology, ACCP (Aptech Certified Computer Professional) Information Technology at Aptech PakistanBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Newports Institute of Communications and EconomicsMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
Github Skills (8)
scalding8
hbase7
jmxtrans2
mongodb2
elasticsearch1
kafka1
zookeeper1
cli1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
saad373/dropwizard-kafka-http
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
apache-kafkaconsuming-messagesapacheendpointkafka
ParallelAI/SpyGlass
Jun 2013 - Feb 2014
Cascading and Scalding wrapper for HBase with advanced read features
Contributions:9 commits in 8 months
hbasescalding
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