Hi, I'm Raashed
About
Founding Engineer, owning full-stack products and cloud infrastructure end-to-end.
Work Experience
Agency
Sole engineer on 30+ freelance projects - scoping, full-stack builds, production deploys, and maintenance after launch. No handoff layer - I owned each engagement end to end.
Howa
Owned howa.so for Johnson & Johnson - about 500K users on Go and AWS. I built autoscaling for bursty traffic and HIPAA-minded controls - encryption, tight IAM, audit logging - with Redis-backed Go and TypeScript APIs.
Peerplays
As a founding engineer on usetoto, I helped build a civic platform Canadians actually use - Next.js on the front, concurrent Go on AWS Fargate in the back, and Cloudflare at the edge. I spent a lot of time on networking that worked in prod and on Go APIs that stayed responsive when real traffic showed up.
Skills
Check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
lumen
A screen recorder for Windows, Linux and macOS that edits while you record, with automatic zooms that follow your cursor, a camera bubble and on-device captions.
devin
A self-hosted AI coding platform: submit a task, get an isolated Firecracker microVM, run Cursor or Claude Code headlessly, stream progress over SSE, and persist results.
vibecheck
vibecheck is a lightweight, cross-platform command line AI-tool that automatically generates meaningful and consistent Git Commit Messages by analyzing your code changes.
metaverse
A real-time 2d-metaverse application with proximity-based video calling, spatial audio, and interactive avatars in a 2D virtual world.
better-uptime
A real-time uptime monitoring platform with instant alerts, status pages, and detailed analytics powered by ClickHouse for high-performance time-series data.
copy-paste.space
Stop logging-in mail/whatsapp on random PC's just share & cheat in your labs by simply copying and pasting secretly from random PC's to your friends.
Open Source
Fixes I've landed in projects that run data platforms at scale.
Couldn't reach GitHub right now. See my merged pull requests on GitHub.
Achievements
Hackathons
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OpenAI Hackathon
IIIT Delhi
Won 1st place with Team 0xPrime.$1,000 OpenAI credits$1,000 Exa AI credits$500 Cerebras creditsChatGPT Premium for a yearOpenAI swag - G
GitHub Hackathon
Draper Startup House
Won 1st place with V2 of our virtual try-on app.GitHub Pro for a yearGitHub Copilot for a yearGitHub merch
Trivia
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AWS Builder Center Trivia
Future Builders Connect, India Expo Centre & Mart, Delhi NCR
Won 1st place in the live trivia. - A
Azure Trivia
IIIT Hyderabad
Won 1st place at the 2-day Scaling AI Products bootcamp.$500 Azure credits
Talks
Get in Touch
Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter and I'll respond whenever I can. Prefer to talk it through? Grab a free 30-min slot on my calendar below. Happy to chat about roles, infra problems, or anything you're building. I will ignore all soliciting.