# Rehan Javaid

> Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman | Computer Science @ UVA

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rehanjavaid

Software Engineer with a background in full-stack development, Generative AI, and scalable infrastructure. Proven impact across enterprise, research, and startup environments—delivering optimized ML models, production-ready pipelines, and published research.

## Work Experience
### Associate Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2023 – Present | Baltimore, Maryland, United States
•	Stationed on-site with the customer, resolving mission-critical software issues in real time, cutting downtime by 70% and ensuring uninterrupted operations.
•	Developed an error-handling platform that reduced customer response time from 4 hours to instant, saving ~$80K annually (React, Java 17).
•	Built and deployed scalable real-time data pipelines using Java Multithreading and Apache Kafka.
•	Enhanced debugging and observability by integrating Elastic Stack with internal tools (ELK, Kubernetes, Docker).
•	Optimized PyTorch ML models for a 50% runtime reduction using parallelization and GPU acceleration.
•	Deployed and managed production microservices using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability in high-availability environments.
•	Implemented and tested C++ algorithms for real-time system change detection, increasing reliability of mission-critical systems.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cvent
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States
•	Delivered 3 new search filter options to enhance customer-facing search engine (Elastic, REST APIs) 
•	Collaborated on rigorous Agile development team in shared repo to complete bi-weekly sprints 
•	Tech Stack: Java, Junit, Painless, Postman, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Kibana, Elastic, Karate, Docker, Git

### Software Engineer Intern @ Poppy Flowers
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Automated business tasks to remove ~8 hours of operational work using JavaScript (Process Automation) 
• Managed database of 10,000+ customers and created schemas using SQL and PostgreSQL (Database Admin)
• Contributed directly to a 79% increase in sales month over month (Profit Generation)
• Built and interacted with REST APIs with JavaScript

### Research Coordinator @ UVA Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
• Directed research effort to find evidence of racial disparities in COVID-19 treatment accessibility (presented at Translational Science 2022 Conference)
• Performed big-data filtration on 8-billion row dataset with analysis via Python and Spark (Big Data)
• Utilized PySpark Machine Learning library to perform logistic regression on cohort (Machine Learning)

### Imogen Solutions Web Development Company @ Imogen Solution
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | McLean, Virginia, United States
•	Founded company to help Northern Virginian small businesses expand online reach during COVID-19 pandemic by providing a cheaper alternative to major, subscription-based web hosting and design services (roughly $500 cheaper than websites such as SquareSpace and Wix for 3 years of hosting) while allowing complete customizability 
•	Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frameworks/Libraries: jQuery, wow.js

### Student Intern @ The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
•	Project to create an interactive robotic system to foster social engagement in children with autism
•	Studied human-AI interaction with robotics and full body motion tracking
•	Languages: C++


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Virginia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rehanjavaid

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Last updated: 2026-04-05