rehan akbar

Re-engineered a PowerShell identity workflow into .NET 8 microservices, cutting onboarding time by 60% and eliminating a 6-hour nightly batch backlog. Designed a concurrent in-memory queue sustaining 5,000+ requests/minute and a real-time identity hub with SignalR and Redis Pub/Sub.

Owned Payments, Registration, and Scholarship modules for Republic Polytechnic as backend lead, serving 1,000+ active users with 99.9% uptime. Redesigned 12 high-traffic SQL Server queries, cutting API response time from ~800ms to under 180ms.

Architected a multilingual CMS supporting 8 languages and a modular plug-in system, cutting time-to-configure a new client instance from 3 weeks to 6 days. Introduced Redis-based output caching, cutting page-load time 55% and halving AWS EC2 compute costs.

Owned a custom Hydra module processing financial data feeds for 3 enterprise clients with sub-second SLAs. Defined cross-team API contracts that cut integration defects by ~35%.

Engineered analytics dashboards for a VAS platform serving 90+ operators across 30 countries. Built subscriber-facing campaign pages, driving a 20% lift in conversions on a platform reaching 1M+ subscribers.

Shipped a REST API layer for a Tourism Management System using Clean Architecture, later extended by 3 downstream teams. Built a desktop diagnostic app for automated mobile-repair fault detection.

Bachelor of Software Engineering degree from Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan, completed in 2018.