Rida Devloper

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years designing and deploying high-performance financial applications in banking and fintech. Specializes in payment processing, transaction reconciliation, settlement systems, and compliance-oriented flows. Proven expertise in payment gateways, interbank messaging, dispute resolution, settlement engines, and automated reconciliation.

Strong fit for Bahrain banking & fintech roles: regulated money systems, scalable .NET backends, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and Docker/Linux production delivery. Experienced in technical design, mentoring, and measurable business outcomes.

Senior Software Engineer - Hala

(2021-01)

• Architected a financial settlement engine automating reconciliation, partner payouts, and consistency across multiple payment gateways.
• Built automated reconciliation workflows matching internal records with gateways, banks, and aggregators.
• Matching algorithms for discrepancies and unmatched items—70% reduction in manual reconciliation time.
• Settlement engine for payouts, fees, commissions, and net amounts; daily/weekly/monthly cycles with exception handling.
• Audit trails and immutable logs for compliance reporting; real-time sync with financial institutions.
• High-volume payment APIs with idempotency, retries, and structured error handling.
• Multiple gateway integration for payment orchestration; encryption, tokenization, security-aligned flows.
• Real-time status, webhooks, and payment event notifications—40% faster processing on hot paths.
• Exponential backoff and circuit breaker patterns for resilience.
• Microservices for catalog (.NET 6/8); Grubtech menu sync with food aggregators; APIs for availability and hierarchies at scale (LINQ to DB).
• Scalable SMS/email infrastructure with RabbitMQ queuing, throttling, fallbacks, templates, and delivery tracking.
• TDD (xUnit/Moq), clean architecture, GitHub Actions CI/CD, production releases, code reviews, mentoring juniors.

Web Developer - iPath

(2018-01 - 2021-12)

• Brand module, ActiveMQ, SOAP/REST APIs; 500K+ users on feature phones; 35% response-time improvement.
• Secure MVC architecture for millions of transactions/day; approval-based change requests; multi-DB (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
• Performance tuning: 50% fewer DB calls, 45% faster responses; code reviews and legacy refactoring.
• Sole developer from scratch: inter-bank disputes, Windows Services, gateway handshakes, lifecycle and evidence tracking.

BSc - Computer Science - Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (2014-01 - 2017-12)