Hey, I'm Abdur Rahman, a software engineer who likes building products. The kind that people come back to, trust, and actually enjoy using. Most of my work sits at the crossroads of product thinking, engineering, and user experience, figuring out what matters, building it well, and making sure it holds up as things grow.
I'm driven by impact. That shows up in the way I take ownership, push initiatives forward, and help teams move faster with confidence. I enjoy mentoring, reviewing work thoughtfully, and creating space for others to do their best work. Good products are rarely built alone, and collaboration is a big part of how I work.
When I'm not building at work, I'm experimenting on side projects, exploring new ways technology can help people, or taking on challenges that stretch how I think about products and systems.
Reach out or connect with me on LinkedIn↗. For occasional thoughts and experiments, you can check out my blog↗.
Some Stories of Impact
Altruistiq - Senior Software Engineer↗
At Altruistiq, I led technical support across the full stack and infrastructure, and focused on strengthening security and improving reliability across the product, helping the team meet critical compliance standards. I also worked on onboarding new teammates, making sure they could get up to speed quickly and start contributing confidently.
Along the way, I collaborated with infrastructure and other teams to refine processes to improve incident response, and support initiatives that made the product more resilient and the team more effective.
Spekit - Senior Software Engineer↗
At Spekit, I worked on making the product smarter, faster, and more enjoyable for users. I refactored the platform and internal systems to improve scalability and maintainability while collaborating with design to make the interface more intuitive.
I built tools that genuinely helped users do their work, including white labeling for large customers, Knowledge Checks to reinforce learning, an upgraded rich text editor, and drag-and-drop content management. I also refactored workflow recording to make it more efficient and optimized our data pipelines and search indexing, improving reliability, reducing unnecessary processing, and cutting costs. Across all of it, I partnered closely with product and design, mentored teammates, and focused on solving the right problems to create an experience people love to use.
For a full list of my roles and experiences, check out my LinkedIn↗
What I Work With
I build products across the web end-to-end, choosing the tools that best solve the problem at hand rather than sticking to one stack. On the frontend, that mostly means React/Vue, TypeScript, and modern UI frameworks to create experiences people enjoy using. On the backend, I work with Python, Django, Node, and relational databases to make systems reliable and scalable.
I handle infrastructure, from cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines to monitoring, ensuring products run reliably at scale. Beyond that, I've worked with AI integrations, open-source LLMs, browser extensions, and building design systems to create cohesive and intuitive experiences across products.
Words from Those I've Worked With
Satya van Heummen
"As Abdurrahman's line manager and Director of Engineering at Altruistiq, I've been consistently impressed by his technical depth, ownership, and impact. Joining as our first Support Engineer in an undefined and challenging role, he quickly mastered our stack, established key support processes, and built strong relationships across teams.
He's gone well beyond expectations — leading our security dependency management, improving support efficiency, and mentoring new engineers who he ramped up exceptionally fast under his guidance. His combination of technical excellence, initiative, and leadership has been invaluable to the team.
I regard Abdurrahman as an exceptionally capable, reliable, and proactive engineer with clear potential for senior leadership. He delivers results, build capability around himself, and embodies the best of our values. Any team would be lucky to have him and if the opportunity arises I wouldn't hesitate to hire him again."
Adam Rosson
"Though I only managed Abdur Rahman for about 7 months, I found myself consistently impressed by his work ethic, his insightful observations, and his candid feedback. When working with Abdur Rahman, his expertise as a software engineer is almost immediately apparent. This surfaces in the way he clarifies work, how he breaks down larger initiatives into bite-sized pieces, the way in which he leads the development of new features, and his ability to effectively collaborate and delegate tasks. These aspects are only learned through years of development and are some of the traits that I value most highly in my engineers.
AR truly represents, in my mind, everything that it takes to be a real Senior Engineer. I watched as his passion for high quality work inspired those around him and also in how his passion for building high quality, human ux elevated his implementations of new features and functionality. I'm genuinely sad that he has chosen to move on from Spekit because he was such a valued member of our team and he contributed so much positivity to the company as a whole. I KNOW, without a doubt, that AR will go on to do great things and will become a technical leader wherever he goes. I feel so grateful for the time we had in working together and I wish AR only the best and all the success in his future endeavors. I've been in the industry for over 15 years now and I can confidently say that he is one of the best engineers I've worked with. Way to set the standard, Abdur Rahman! We'll miss you!"
The rest of the stories live on LinkedIn↗