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Ashida Khader

London

Summary

I am a software developer with 8 years of experience spanning the technology, financial, and regulatory sectors. As an AWS-recognized Subject Matter Expert, I have contributed to certification development by preparing exam questions. I am also a CISSP-certified professional with expertise in Hash Corp Vault.

My work has included machine learning and NLP projects, and I am keen to further grow my knowledge in these areas, particularly in Generative AI. I have a strong passion for continuous learning, completing professional certifications almost every year, and pursuing projects outside of work to expand my skill set.

Over time, I have naturally become the go-to member of my team, and I am now eager to channel this into a formal leadership role, where I can guide teams, drive innovation, and contribute to both technical and strategic growth.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President

Citi
London
01.2025 - Current
  • Leading design and development of Python microservice architecture.
  • Partnering with DevOps, SecOps, and platform teams to solve complex engineering challenges.
  • Driving vault integration, architecture reviews, and cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Implemented and managed the identity framework for HashiCorp Vault, reducing licensing costs by 12%.
  • Led, implemented, and automated the DB connection update process, reducing timelines from over three weeks to sixteen hours.

Associate Vice President

Citi
London
01.2022 - 12.2024
  • Responsible for engineering security patterns and solutions that improve application security via services and libraries.
  • Designing services and developer libraries that embody key security patterns such as input validation, authentication, cryptography, and secrets, etc.
  • Engineering firm-wide solutions for policy-as-code development time control.
  • Developed a real-time monitoring solution for runtime controls, enhancing organizational oversight and security measures.
  • Designed and implemented a robust performance testing and stress testing solution for runtime controls, ensuring system resilience, and optimal functionality.

Senior Associate

Financial Conduct Authority
London
07.2020 - 07.2022
  • Designed and built applications integrating analytics tools for enterprise-wide user base.
  • Deployed applications in production environments, ensuring reliability and performance.
  • Developed back-end algorithms and RESTful APIs to enhance application functionality.
  • Conducted code reviews and enforced engineering best practices across department.
  • Managed stakeholder relationships and product ownership for Searchlight project.
  • Implemented scaling of Searchlight applications for scraping 10,000+ websites per day

Software Engineer

Inapp Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
Technopark
01.2017 - 12.2020
  • Development of EventOps using Django Framework.
  • Key role in DB design, Dashboard integration, Firebase integration and API development.
  • Managed end-to-end software release cycles as a Release Manager

Education

B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering

Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
Kothamangalam, India
01.2017

Skills

  • Django and Flask
  • Python programming
  • Database management (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB)
  • Cloud services (AWS, Firebase)
  • Containerization (Docker, OpenShift)
  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Tekton, Helm)
  • Data processing (PySpark, NumPy, Pandas)
  • Microservices architecture
  • Application security
  • RESTful API development
  • Policy as code
  • Monitoring and analytics (Prometheus, Elasticsearch)
  • Queuing systems: Celery, Redis broker, SQS
  • Apigee
  • Hashicorp vault

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
  • AWS Certified Developer Associate
  • Hashi Corp Certified Vault associate
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Accomplishments

🏆 Recognized as AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) by AWS for certification contributions.

🏆 Received “At Our Best” Award for month of August 2021 for delivering enterprise-scale app capable of processing 10K+ sites daily (FCA - Searchlight).

🏆 Received multiple “Citi Gratitude Award” for the contributions made to the secrets management team

Timeline

Vice President

Citi
01.2025 - Current

Associate Vice President

Citi
01.2022 - 12.2024

Senior Associate

Financial Conduct Authority
07.2020 - 07.2022

Software Engineer

Inapp Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 12.2020

B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering

Mar Athanasius College of Engineering

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