Sal Rahman
Senior Backend Engineer at Aarista Technologies
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSal Rahman is a Senior Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems and shipping user-focused products. He led development of a “Figma for choreography” that cut bugs by 80% and tripled feature delivery, and has deep hands-on expertise in WebRTC, Go, TypeScript, and scalable backend architectures. Sal has researched peer-assisted video delivery topologies and audited cryptographic practices to move teams toward industry-standard security. He thrives on asking tough questions to keep systems flexible and long-lived, and has stepped into temporary leadership and mentoring roles to align engineering with product outcomes. Based in Surrey, BC, he runs the Vancouver.dev community and works on medical informatics projects including AI note summarization and semantic search. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, curious, and unusually focused on clarity and user-facing simplicity.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Software Systems, B.Sc. Software Systems at Simon Fraser University
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Github contributions (5)
shovon/hyperguard
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Supercharge your TypeScript type guards with this dead simple object validation library
Contributions:14 releases, 112 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
validationxmlhttprequestjavascriptdecoratorvalidator
shovon/inlinedAutocomplete
Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 1 month
auto-completeboxjqueryjavascriptjquery-ui
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