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Hi, I'm Rashid El houli, a software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years in design and architecture. I've built scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients at Leidos, and helped optimize a large-scale e-commerce platform at Catch, delivering performance gains and frontend improvements. Currently I freelance through Zortech while completing a Master of Computer Science at Monash, and I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into solid, secure solutions from concept to production. In my work I value pragmatic trade-offs, clear communication, and mentoring junior engineers. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love building reliable, compliant systems that scale with business needs, often experimenting with AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery.…Hi, I'm Rashid El houli, a software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years in design and architecture. I've built scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients at Leidos, and helped optimize a large-scale e-commerce platform at Catch, delivering performance gains and frontend improvements. Currently I freelance through Zortech while completing a Master of Computer Science at Monash, and I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into solid, secure solutions from concept to production. In my work I value pragmatic trade-offs, clear communication, and mentoring junior engineers. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love building reliable, compliant systems that scale with business needs, often experimenting with AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery.

Rashid El houli

Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, +3

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Hi, I'm Rashid El houli, a software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years in design and architecture. I've built scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients at Leidos, and helped optimize a large-scale e-commerce platform at Catch, delivering performance gains and frontend improvements. Currently I freelance through Zortech while completing a Master of Computer Science at Monash, and I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into solid, secure solutions from concept to production. In my work I value pragmatic trade-offs, clear communication, and mentoring junior engineers. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love building reliable, compliant systems that scale with business needs, often experimenting with AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery.…Hi, I'm Rashid El houli, a software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years in design and architecture. I've built scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients at Leidos, and helped optimize a large-scale e-commerce platform at Catch, delivering performance gains and frontend improvements. Currently I freelance through Zortech while completing a Master of Computer Science at Monash, and I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into solid, secure solutions from concept to production. In my work I value pragmatic trade-offs, clear communication, and mentoring junior engineers. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love building reliable, compliant systems that scale with business needs, often experimenting with AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery.

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Hi, I’m Rashid El houli, a software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years in design and architecture. I’ve built scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients at Leidos, and helped optimize a large-scale e-commerce platform at Catch, delivering performance gains and frontend improvements. Currently I freelance through Zortech while completing a Master of Computer Science at Monash, and I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into solid, secure solutions from concept to production.

In my work I value pragmatic trade-offs, clear communication, and mentoring junior engineers. I thrive in cross-functional teams and love building reliable, compliant systems that scale with business needs, often experimenting with AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery.

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Arabic

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Javanese

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Work Experience

Freelance Software Engineer / Founder at Zortech

February 1, 2025 - Present

Built production websites and tools for SMB clients using Next.js and TypeScript on Vercel; used Sanity as headless CMS and PostgreSQL for data; wrote and maintained Playwright end-to-end tests; integrated Stripe payments and edge DNS/CDN via Cloudflare; designed and implemented AI features via LLm APIs; established agentic development workflows and managed deployments via GitHub Actions.

Software Engineer at Leidos Australia

April 1, 2023 - November 1, 2024

Engineered scalable Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs for government clients, enabling compliant cross-jurisdiction integrations and secure APIs using Spring Security with RBAC. Optimized search with TeraText and SQL, redesigned document conversion pipelines for XML, PDF and DOCX formats, and implemented end-to-end CI/CD with Jenkins. Led Agile ceremonies and collaborated with BAs, designers and product owners to meet mission-critical requirements.

Software Developer at Catch

February 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023

Built responsive frontend features in TypeScript for a large-scale e-commerce platform, integrating with PHP/Symfony backend and SQL databases. Reduced system latency by 10% by removing bottlenecks across frontend and backend, and designed scalable search with advanced filters. Mentored graduate developers and led a Docker/Kubernetes-based real-time system health monitoring solution.

Senior Associate at Infosys

October 1, 2018 - August 1, 2021

Senior Associate delivering regulatory and financial workflows for NAB and other clients. Automated APRA reporting processes using SQL, reverse-engineered Axiom workflows to improve data accuracy, refined pre-planning documentation for the ECE Centrelink project, and triaged incidents on critical sales apps for Optus via ServiceNow.