Rao Rizwan

Backend engineer with 2 years building production Python systems.

Shipped

Django REST Framework APIs serving 100,000+ requests per day, moved long-running work off the request path with Celery and RabbitMQ, and tuned PostgreSQL and MongoDB for heavy throughput. Delivered containerized services on AWS with automated security scanning built into CI/CD.

Backend Developer (Python) at Broadstone Technologies (2026-06 – 2026-08)

• Built and maintained backend REST APIs in Flask, covering endpoint design, integration, and production support.
• Integrated automated security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, surfacing vulnerabilities and risk findings across application codebases before release.
• Generated AI bill of materials (AIBOM) inventories in-pipeline, giving visibility into AI model and third-party dependency components across projects.
• Automated build, test, and release stages on AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and GitHub Actions, and provisioned EC2, S3, and IAM under least-privilege access.
• Implemented OAuth 2.0 service-to-service authorization across AWS, Azure DevOps, Google Cloud, and GitHub integrations.

Associate Software Engineer at Programmers Force (2024-07 – 2026-04)

• Designed and shipped RESTful APIs with Django REST Framework serving more than 100,000 daily requests in production.
• Introduced asynchronous task processing with Celery and RabbitMQ, moving scraping and report generation off the request path onto background workers.
• Tuned the data layer across PostgreSQL and MongoDB through schema design and query optimization to sustain heavy read and write throughput.
• Refactored core API logic and error handling, standardizing response formats and cutting production error rates.
• Containerized services with Docker and Docker Compose, and built resilient web scraping pipelines with BeautifulSoup4 and Selenium.

Bachelor in Software Engineering – Lahore Garrison University (2020 – 2024)