# Mohammad Khaer > Staff Software Engineer | Turning Business Requirements into Scalable Products | AI-Enabled Engineering Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mohammadkhaer Specialties: J2EE Developer, Java Developer, Web Developer, Scrum, Team Lead, Database, Agile Development, Continuous Integration, Design and Development from Scratch, DevOps ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rakuten Rewards Jan 2025 – Present | United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rakuten Rewards Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rakuten Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Tokyo, Japan Department: Engagement and Loyalty Platform Department Team: New Campaign Platform - Analyze business requirements for campaign point calculation. - Design API and database schema based on business requirements. - Development of campaign platform for business projects. - Create automation test cases. - Design and development of data pipelines for business report generation. - Contribute on coding standards, review source codes, management of source codes. - Build process for system management and team’s improvement. - Troubleshoot issues in production. - Log tracing to support customer and business inquiries. - Ensure systems’ capacity by doing load tests and acquisition of infrastructures if necessary. - Train up new members by sharing business specifications, technical knowledge, doing pair programming, sharing Rakuten Group Rules and Policies, company cultures etc. ### DevOps Engineer @ Rakuten Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan Department: Ecommerce Marketplace Development Department Team: Checkout and BasketAPI • Development of checkout web applications for PC and smartphone. • Ensuring scheduled and safe release of projects without any trouble. • Training up new engineers to be functional member of team. • Supporting engineers to achieve their task, remove any blockers in their way. • Collaboration with producers about task assignment, estimation and release schedule. • Collaboration with other team/group about cross functional project. • Trouble shooting and log investigation of any application server related issues. • Coordination and impact analysis for regular maintenance. • Operating load test to ensure servers capability. ### Software Engineer @ Escenic AS Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Bangladesh I joined Escenic Asia Limited as a Software Engineer in Widget Framework team. Then I promoted as Team Leader of this team. The Widget Framework provides ready-made building blocks for websites. It is also a fast and flexible way to configure sites using pre-configured functionality. Key Responsibilities --------------------------------- • Led development of Escenic Widget Framework and team of 5 members. • Developed standard, customizable and highly configurable widgets. • Conducted research on cutting edge features. • Developed REST services for internal product and customers. • Participated as one of key member about product’s features and technical implementation. • Coached new team members. • Served team as a Scrum Master for around 2.5 years. Major achievements: Leading development of Escenic Widget Framework 3.0 which was enriched with lot of cutting edge features for online publishing. It was widely accepted among customers. ### System Engineer @ Institute of Information and Communication Technology Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Bangladesh I worked in the BUET Institutional Information System (BIIS) project. BIIS is big project which automates all wings of BUET such as academic, administration, research, student welfare etc in web. It includes student's registration process, online application system, result publish, degree application, payroll system, billing system etc. I also worked in the undergraduate and post graduate online application system. These systems are open during admission season. Key Responsibilities ------------------------------- • Analyzed requirement, designed system, developed and trained customers for following projects o Software for research, testing and consultancy center. o Various billing software • Developed undergraduate and postgraduate online application system. Major achievements: Development of various billing software for university automation system. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Khulna University of Engineering and Technology ### Higher Secondary Certificate in Science Walli Nawaz Khan College ### Secondary School Certificate in Science Kishoreganj Govt. Boys High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/makhaer --- Source: https://flows.cv/mohammadkhaer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mohammadkhaer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01