Hilal Rather

About Hilal Rather

I’m a Staff Engineer at BQE Software with 9+ years of experience designing and scaling enterprise grade, multi tenant SaaS platforms. I build resilient, high performance backend systems that support complex business workflows at scale.I bring strong experience integrating enterprise systems such as Salesforce, QuickBooks, and Xero, enabling seamless financial and operational workflows across large-scale business ecosystems.My expertise spans distributed systems, microservices, and cloud native architecture, with deep hands-on experience in.NET and Python. I’ve led the development of core platform capabilities including enterprise caching platforms, custom ORMs, and feature flag systems, driving measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.Alongside my professional work, I actively explore AI and intelligent systems through hands on personal projects, focusing on agentic workflows, Retrieval Augmented Generation, embeddings, and practical LLM integration within enterprise architectures.I thrive in Agile, cross functional environments and enjoy collaborating across teams to build scalable, maintainable, and future ready platforms.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   BQE Software

   Nov 2024 — Present

   Architected a provider agnostic enterprise caching platform (Redis with option to plug in MongoDB or SQL) with Polly based retries and circuit breakers, fixing a major legacy design flaw, reducing cache related incidents by ~80% and improving key page load times by ~35–40%.Designed and rolled out BQECoreORM using Dapper on.NET with multi tenant aware connection management, unit of work and repository patterns, and strongly typed mapping, cutting average API latency by ~25–30% and reducing SQL deadlocks/timeouts by ~35%.Built a pluggable feature flag platform using LaunchDarkly and AWS AppConfig (via LD Relay Proxy and AppConfig Agent on Linux), enabling tenant, region, role, plan and user specific targeting, canary and phased rollouts, and kill switches, reducing risky big bang releases by ~50–80%.

Education

• Punjab Technical University

  Master of Computer Applications® - MCA

  2017 — 2020

• University of Kashmir

  BCA(Bachelor of Computer Applications), Computer Software Engineering

  2012 — 2015

• University of Kashmir

  BCA®, Computer Software Engineering

  2012 — 2015

Skills

• Stripe Development
• C#
• Jquery
• Visual Studio
• Web Services
• Mean Stack
• Javascript
• Testing
• Authorize.net Development
• Angular 4
• Xml
• C#.net
• Angularjs
• Ajax Toolkit
• C
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Web Development
• C++
• Entity Framework
• Ado.net
• Software Development
• Html5
• Json
• Css
• Pl/Sql
• Asp.net Mvc
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Oauth
• Github
• Asp.net Web Api
• Asp.net Identity