# Rasheed Bustamam

> Staff software engineer designing event-driven and experimentation-heavy systems. Focused on architectural judgment, observability, and building platforms that evolve cleanly as teams grow.

Location: Greater Sacramento, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rasheed

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience designing platform-style systems for experimentation, analytics, and personalization. Known for strong architectural judgment, scope discipline, and building systems that remain evolvable as teams and usage grow.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Embedded Insurance, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | Remote
Building innovative solutions in the insurance tech space. Architected a scalable agent dashboard using a custom React component library integrated with Retool, Twilio, and SendGrid, enabling seamless lead management. Automated data enrichment processes with Playwright and LLM-powered workflows, streamlining agent productivity. Leveraged Remix, Chakra-UI, XState, and Temporal for robust application design.

### Founding Engineer @ Edvo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Remote
Edvo's mission is to provide people with tools that help them think more critically about all of the content they consume.

As the founding engineer, spearheaded the development of a graph-based data model backed by Firestore, enabling real-time collaboration. Built web, browser extension, and Electron applications to streamline user workflows. Played a key role in establishing team culture and mentoring junior developers in a fast-paced startup environment.

### Staff Software Engineer @ CDK Global
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States
Developed a dynamic insurance quoting platform, integrating Puppeteer for form automation and Stripe for secure payments, ensuring PCI compliance. Promoted to Staff Engineer post-acquisition; led web automation efforts and mentored team members on best practices, contributing to company-wide scaling initiatives.

### Senior Software Engineer / Project Lead @ FullStack Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Sacramento, California, United States
FullStack Labs is a software consulting firm providing custom software solutions and staff augmentation to companies of all sizes.

Led multiple client projects across diverse industries, managing a team of six engineers while contributing hands-on to development. Delivered high-quality solutions using React Native, Shopify, and Ruby on Rails for clients like Procore and SunDoc Filings. Demonstrated expertise in project management and scalable software development.

### Front-End Engineer @ XY | The Findables Company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sacramento, California Area
Pioneered the development of blockchain-powered user experiences. Created "Save Rasheed," a location-based NFT game showcased to 1000+ attendees at XYO’s Spatial Conference. Utilized Leaflet, Solidity, and Web3 to integrate blockchain technology into user-facing applications.

### Code Reviewer @ Udacity
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | REMOTE
Udacity's Front-End Nanodegree is a six-project program guiding students through front-end basics--from creating an HTML page from a mock-up, all the way to using RESTful APIs to create a front-end web app. 

• Reviewed student project submissions
• Performed thorough code reviews and project evaluations
• Gave actionable and helpful feedback
• Languages reviewed: Knockout.js, Javascript, HTML, CSS

### Front-End Nanodegree Guide @ Udacity
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | REMOTE
• Provided technical/coding support and motivation to team of 7-10 students
• Guided students through common pitfalls
• Ensured that students are kept accountable to their deadlines

### Front-end Engineer @ CoNarrative
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | California
Kicked off my career by mastering React and front-end technologies. Developed interactive dashboards using Leaflet and GSAP for clients like Panzura, showcasing expertise in data visualization and user-centric design.

### Web Developer @ CoNarrative
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
As a startup, CoNarrative requires flexible employees. One day I might be learning Scala to help with the natural language processor, the next day I might be delving into SVG land to improve on the animation engine. 

My primary duty is to implement designs in the UI that were drawn up by our designer. But it's more than just implementing a user "interface," we work together to create a seamless user "experience." We wanted a game-like experience that was responsive and fast, taking cues from the latest game designs, and so we studied various game interfaces and implemented a lot of common design themes. 

The UI/UX was more than simply some CSS tweaks to make things look pretty. Since the crux of the app was essentially a dynamically generated SVG element, I couldn't just hard-code a few event listeners and CSS into the element. I worked with our senior developer Alex to design what could almost be an entire framework, with SVG being the view, and the model being all of the calculations of the SVG components (bounding box, dimensions, scaling, transforms, relationships, etc). Greensock assisted with the interaction between "model" and "view" but there were still a lot of things I needed to tweak to ensure that the animation engine worked as it was supposed to. 

Were we able to dynamically put character pins at a certain place? Could we create captions for the story that is currently being generated? Could we move characters along the map, ensuring that they stuck to the road and also found the shortest path between any two locations? At the end of our two-week sprint, Alex and I implemented all of those features and more.

### Chief Assistant @ Kumon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Davis, California
• Tutored students from grades K-12 with math and reading comprehension concepts
• Assisted owner with administrative tasks such as lesson plans and customer service
• Assigned shifts to staff members based on availability 
• Trained and oriented new staff members 
• Supervised staff and students when owner was absent

### Student Assistant @ UC Davis Medical Center
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Sacramento, California
• Troubleshot and resolved common hardware and software problems with faculty and student PCs using a helpdesk ticketing system
• Utilized disk images to restore a backup or configure a new PC
• Educated students and non-technical staff in maintaining their PCs effectively
• Participated in several domain migrations


## Education
### Full Stack Web Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering
Free Code Camp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Nanodegree in Front-end Web Development
Udacity
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### GED
Tracy High
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abustamam
- Website: http://abustamam.github.io
- GitHub: http://github.com/abustamam/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22