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William Rashidi

@mrrashidi

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Senior software engineer specializing in Python backends and applied AI for production systems.

Armenia

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for senior roles building API-first backend and applied AI systems, with emphasis on production reliability, measurable model improvements, and collaborative, engineering-driven teams offering growth.

I am a senior software engineer with 10+ years building production-grade Python backend systems and recent years focused on applied AI, LLMs, and RAG-based retrieval and classification. I have led design and production rollouts of AI-driven classification platforms, owned offline evaluation and benchmarking pipelines, and productionized services on Kubernetes with strong SLAs and observability.

My experience includes architecting API-first platforms with Django/DRF and FastAPI, scaling data platforms (Postgres, ElasticSearch), and operating containerized workloads on AWS Kubernetes. I have improved model and retrieval quality, driven measurable accuracy gains, refactored large legacy codebases, and mentored engineers while delivering reliable, auditable systems in regulated environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

Current

Stipendia (Creative Collisions)

Dec 2023 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Led design and production rollout of an AI-driven HS classification platform using LLMs, RAG, and deterministic rules, improving top-1 classification accuracy by 12–18% and delivering p95 latency <120 ms at 2× projected traffic.

Python Django fastAPI LLM RAG Kubernetes CI CD Embeddings Model Evaluation

Senior Software Engineer

X180

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 11 months)

Designed and implemented a low-latency, event-driven backend for a real-time crypto copy trading platform, improving execution reliability and throughput across major exchanges under extreme market volatility.

Python fastAPI AsyncIO Event Driven Architecture Caching Monitoring

Software Engineer

Satya

Jan 2015 - Jan 2020 (5 years)

Built backend systems for 5+ client products as primary backend engineer, led a legacy refactor reducing a 100k+ line codebase to 10k lines and improved performance, maintainability, and deployment stability.

Python Django REST APIs Refactoring PostgreSQL MySQL Mentoring CI CD

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering

2014 - 2018

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering with coursework and projects focused on backend systems and software engineering practices.