Zia Ur Rehman

Software Engineering Manager

Hey, I'm Zia.

Engineering leader with deep full-stack roots, passionate about reliable systems, clear architecture, and teams that ship with care.

I'm a Software Engineering Manager based in Virginia with 3 years leading engineering teams and more than a decade of hands-on experience, from junior web developer through lead full-stack engineer across healthcare, risk management, and financial services.

I started my career writing websites and PHP applications, then grew into software engineering and technical leadership at companies including Guidance Residential, Lowers Risk Group, and SafeRide Health. Along the way I shipped production APIs, migrated monoliths to AWS microservices, and mentored engineers from early career through senior and lead roles.

Today I lead a distributed engineering organization focused on hiring, roadmaps, architecture reviews, and delivery, while staying close to the code through design discussions, incident learnings, and hands-on guidance on cloud-native systems, event-driven workflows, and secure healthcare platforms.

I care about software that works under real-world load and still feels dependable to users and partners. When I'm not working, I'm with family, exploring new technology, or helping engineers think through architecture and career growth.

What I Do

Engineering Leadership

Lead and mentor distributed teams across time zones. Drive hiring, 1:1s, architecture reviews, and engineering standards that improve velocity, quality, and delivery, grounded in years of lead engineer experience before moving into management.

Cloud & Microservices

Architect cloud-native platforms on AWS using Terraform, ECS, Lambda, SQS, and containerized services. Guide monolith-to-microservices transitions with clear technical roadmaps.

API & Platform Architecture

"A platform is only as good as the teams that can operate it." Design scalable REST APIs, event-driven queuing systems, and integrations for IVR, partners, and healthcare transportation platforms used in production every day.

Healthcare & Compliance

Deliver secure, compliant systems in regulated environments, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to meet healthcare industry requirements.

Skills

Development

Tools

Git + GitHub
CI/CD Pipelines
Jira

Knowledge

Microservices
API Design
System Performance
Agile Leadership
Healthcare Compliance

Experience

More than a decade building software across healthcare, risk management, and financial services, from junior developer and PHP engineer through lead full-stack roles, and the past three years leading distributed engineering teams on AWS.

Software Engineering Manager

SafeRide Health

Lead a distributed team of 15 engineers across time zones. Set technical direction and roadmap for migrating a monolith to AWS microservices. Improved production reliability, response times, and platform scalability through event-driven architecture and disciplined query and data-access optimization.

2023 – Present

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

SafeRide Health

Led migration of legacy systems to cloud-native microservices (Lambda, SQS, ECS). Designed scalable backend APIs and introduced engineering standards.

2022 – 2023

Lead Full Stack Developer

Lowers Risk Group

Enhanced enterprise platforms using Phalcon, Slim, and Nuxt. Migrated legacy APIs to Spring Boot. Managed CI/CD across staging and production.

2019 – 2022

PHP Developer

Guidance Residential

Maintained high-traffic Laravel applications and integrated third-party financial APIs.

2015 – 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Iqra University

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. Winner, Speed Programming Competition.

2008 – 2012

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Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or just want to say hi? Feel free to reach out. I'm open to discussing engineering leadership, platform architecture, and new opportunities.

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