Safwan Rahman
Senior Software Engineer at RedAwning
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
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Top SchoolSafwan Rahman is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade backend systems, currently driving platform reliability at RedAwning. He specializes in Python/Django backends, search and Elasticsearch integration, and SRE practices to achieve high availability and scalable indexing pipelines. Safwan has a strong track record in both product teams and open source—contributing to well-known projects like Read the Docs, MDN, and elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py—where he focused on search upgrades, localization, and test automation. He excels at taking ownership of complex migration and reindexing work (including zero-downtime search upgrades) and mentoring teams on reliability and code quality. Based in Dhaka, he blends hands-on engineering with DevOps responsibilities and a knack for multilingual platform support that improves user experience across locales.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC UniversityHigh School Science, High School Science at Adamjee Cantonment CollegeSenior School Certificate, Senior School Certificate at Adamjee Cantonment Public School
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (36)
useraccounts10
pytest10
back-end-development10
account-manager10
python10
django10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
mdns10
mdc10
doc10
user-management10
elasticsearchquery10
localization10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
django-es/django-elasticsearch-dsl
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
This is a package that allows indexing of django models in elasticsearch with elasticsearch-dsl-py.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 27 reviews, 76 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Safwan primarily contributed to the `django-elasticsearch-dsl` package by modifying the codebase to support newer versions of the `elasticsearch-dsl` library, specifically version 6.1.0 and then 7.0.0. These changes included updates to `setup.py` to manage dependencies, as well as modifications to core files such as `registries.py` and `documents.py`, and tests. The user also made test fixes and ensured compatibility with the latest Elasticsearch versions.
pythonelasticsearch-dsldjangodslindexing
mozilla/kitsune
Aug 2014 - Aug 2019
Platform for Mozilla Support
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 68 PRs, 518 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Safwan contributed to the localization and internationalization efforts within the Mozilla Kitsune platform. They added support for new locales and corrected existing locale definitions in the settings.py file. Furthermore, the user modified templates and views to integrate language selection and display translated content, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience across different languages. Their work also involved adding features like a Thunderbird download button and handling fallback locales.
mozilla
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