# Abdul Rashid — Experience

> Career history for Abdul Rashid: Reclaim Protocol, SaaS Labs, Amazon, and earlier roles across full-stack engineering, infrastructure, and AI.

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# Experience

Engineering across product and infrastructure, from payments and event-driven systems to browser clouds.

- [Resume PDF](https://abdulrashid.dev/abdul-rashid-resume.pdf)

## Career

### [Reclaim Protocol (YC W21)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/99052824/)

Nov 2023–Present

Full-time

- **Founding Engineer:** Jan 2026–Present · Remote
- **Engineering Lead:** May 2024–Present
- **Software Engineer:** Nov 2023–May 2024

Work spans the full stack: native and web SDKs, developer tools, verification agents, and the infrastructure behind them. Led projects from implementation through evaluation and production operations.

- Led the Reclaim app’s migration from React Native to Flutter, alongside work on mobile SDKs, web SDKs, and developer tools.
- Built [Popcorn’s browser cloud](https://abdulrashid.dev/projects/#popcorn) and mobile live viewer, bringing together regional fleet operations, elastic scaling, end-to-end encryption, and hardware attestation.
- Built and evaluated AI agents for creating verification flows. An [autoresearch harness](https://abdulrashid.dev/blog/can-you-leave-your-agent-alone-for-ten-hours/#automated-ai-research) compares models and approaches, guides experiments, and fine-tunes smaller models, reducing agent cost by **97%** and making execution **30% faster**.
- Led the [gnark migration](https://blog.reclaimprotocol.org/posts/gnark-migration), moving mobile proof generation from a WebView to native Go. Average proof time fell from about **40 seconds to 4–5 seconds**.
- Built Glassbreak, a Slack-based system for managing cloud permissions and tracking access for audits.
- Built internal tools for engineering and operations: an AI review agent, a log viewer, and triage and Snitch bots for investigating production issues.

### SaaS Labs

Mar 2023–Nov 2023

Software Development Engineer 2 · Full-time

Modernized legacy backend systems, migrating PHP monoliths to JavaScript microservices and redesigning callback processing for lower latency and greater scale.

- Moved callback processing from the legacy cron-based system to an event-driven architecture. Callbacks could be processed as events arrived, removing the wait for a scheduled run.
- Reduced callback latency by **more than 20×** and made processing horizontally scalable, with capacity to handle **100× the legacy system’s traffic**.
- Improved coding and refactoring guidelines across teams to make the evolving services easier to maintain.

### Amazon

Jul 2022–Mar 2023

Software Developer · Full-time

- Developed merchant registration for Amazon India, Amazon Pay, and Fresh, and a peer-to-merchant payment flow for Amazon Pay.
- Built responsive interfaces and a reusable component library for the frontend.
- Handled design, implementation, unit testing, and deployment through AWS Pipelines.
- Managed cloud infrastructure, automated deployments, and monitored production systems with CloudWatch.

### Procedure

Mar 2022–Jul 2022

SDE II · Full-time · Mumbai

Built backend infrastructure and real-time monitoring for last-mile delivery, with a focus on high throughput and low latency.

- Designed and deployed the backend infrastructure supporting delivery operations and analytics.
- Built real-time monitoring and analytics to follow delivery activity as it happened.
- Developed load-testing tools for both traffic bursts and sustained load, helping evaluate throughput, latency, and system behavior under pressure.

### Genius Consulting

Dec 2020–Mar 2022

Software Engineer · Full-time

Designed, developed, and deployed an automated stock-trading system. Built scrapers to collect and warehouse live data from multiple platforms, and worked on stock-performance evaluation and recommendations.

### Metanoia Technologies

Aug 2020–Dec 2020

Software Engineer · Full-time

Built proofs of concept for mobile and web projects to explore product ideas and evaluate technology choices. Planned the software development lifecycle and set up and maintained cloud deployment infrastructure.

### Dimensionless Tech.

Jun 2020–Aug 2020

Data Scientist · Internship

- Created hands-on learning modules, including signature classification.
- Worked on Baggage AI, a computer vision platform for detecting objects in baggage X-ray images.
- Extended the internal certificate-generation system, refactored older code into reusable components, and added website payment processing.

## Education

### Rizvi College of Engineering

2017–2021

B.E. in Computer Engineering