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, India01.2017
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