Asif Rahman

SailPoint Technologies

• Promoted to Principal Engineer, leading AI Ops and Enablement across all of Engineering while directly owning UI Platform Engineering and Design System tooling and modernization.
• Created Shipmate, an internal AI-assisted engineering harness used org-wide to accelerate development velocity while keeping AI tool usage cost-effective and consistent across teams.
• Contributing to SailPoint's internal agent development platform, extending agentic engineering workflows and best practices beyond the UI org and across the broader Engineering organization.
• Led front-end platform strategy for SailPoint's identity governance suite, migrating from 30+ fragmented frontend repositories with complex version management and slow release cycles to a unified Nx monorepo with automated code mods, standardized workflows, and centralized dependency management while minimizing disruption to delivery teams.
• Designed and implemented new CI/CD pipelines with custom reporting and actionable notifications, reducing build and deploy times by ~50% and improving troubleshooting efficiency.
• Developed a highly configurable, drop-in replacement datatable implementation that enabled rapid delivery of long-awaited customer features such as user preference and state persistence, using local-first state management and sync across microfrontends. The solution had to satisfy dozens of product-specific requirements across the suite, cutting the original time and capacity estimate for the project well below plan.
• Drove Design System modernization and tooling initiatives, including shared UI component development and custom Figma plugins/integrations to keep design and code in sync across the frontend org.

Block Inc. (Cash App)

• Technical lead for OS Web (Cash App's Web Platform team), providing all Cash Web Teams with core platform level libraries, e.g. web design system components, centralized i18n and observability tooling, monorepo support and governance, and other developer tools, e.g. testing and automation plugins for consistent and reliable visual regression testing.
• Kickstarted the cash-design-system repo, the first cross-platform source of truth for design tokens and primitives, automating generation of semantically versioned web, iOS, and Android packages and artifacts. This eliminated drift across client platforms and simplified design updates across all product surfaces during the rollout of Arcade, Cash App's design language refresh.
• Led front-end strategy for migrating high-traffic web experiences (e.g., CashTags, Receipts) from Ember to React, introducing SSR and React Server Components to improve perceived performance while preserving existing deployment flows while hardening the modern web platform ecosystem our team was responsible for.
• Developed an i18n AST parser and extraction workflow that simplified the management of localized strings during development. Also collaborated cross functionally to help bootstrap other teams needing to integrate with our centralized Globalization org via CI/CD scripts that automated string submission and retrieval via pull requests.
• Developed a Webpack plugin to ensure optimal tree-shaking configuration, reducing client side bundle sizes for all web teams without any additional developer effort and preventing misconfigurations that were causing performance regressions.

UKG Inc.

• Led UI unification strategy post-merger with Kronos, collaborating with numerous cross-functional teams under an aggressive 180-day timeline to integrate the product offerings of both organizations into a single experience via the new UKG Mobile app, consistently advocating for and delivering the best possible user experience.
• Collaborated with IAM teams to unify cross-product authentication across identity providers, aligning technical vision and user experience across the suite.

Newfold Digital / Bluehost

• Guided migration of a large React monolith into a microfrontend architecture using Webpack Module Federation and Nx tooling.
• Designed unification strategy post-merger, combining offerings from legacy orgs under a federated frontend model.
• Served on the Technical Leadership Team, providing guidance and mentorship to Bluehost's frontend teams and establishing technical direction for their migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices and event-driven paradigms.

Ultimate Software / UKG

• Architected the company's first mobile app, which became the foundation for a modern write-once-deploy-everywhere frontend monorepo. The libraries developed for this ecosystem allowed teams to build Angular features once and deploy them across legacy web, modern web, and native mobile apps, intelligently tailoring the experience to each device's context and capabilities.
• Designed and implemented a secure mobile authentication solution using custom Cordova plugins to meet stringent HR/HCM security and regulatory requirements. Used hardware-backed secure storage to encrypt sensitive PII data at rest, and introduced a step-up authentication model enabling biometric login (Touch ID/Face ID) for most functions while requiring multi-factor challenges for sensitive workflows, balancing usability with regulatory compliance.
• Engineered a custom JavaScript-based Mobile Org Chart UI engine capable of rendering and navigating thousands of employee records with smooth, animated touch interactions at 60 fps, optimized to run on a wide range of mobile devices dating back to Android 4.0.
• Served as Software Architect for the Product Experience domain, overseeing the frontend platform and unified services that merged multiple generations of solutions into cohesive experiences like unified inbox and navigation.
• Earlier roles included serving as team lead and iteration manager for the Architecture Refactoring Team, worked on major projects like Platform Configurability / Rules engine, and as a Technical UX Engineer creating prototypes for the companies next-generation software and moonshot concepts.

Consulting & Earlier Career

• XS Web Solutions Corp - President: Delivered architecture consulting, cloud-native migrations, CI/CD automation, and DevOps tooling for SMBs/startups.
• SellYourGold.com - Senior Developer/DBA: Built secure PHP MVC-backed storefronts, CRM, reporting, and affiliate tracking systems.
• Yadio.com / DemandX - Web Developer: Created embeddable video players with affiliate ad logic and ACL-driven CMS.