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Operations & Technical Systems

I Notice
How Things
Break Down.

Whether it's technology, operations, online communities, or human behavior. I'm interested in understanding the systems underneath and improving how they work.

// by the numbers
Cases reviewed daily at Meta
1,200+94% quality score
System uptime at Go Green
99%POS + network + hardware
Ticket reduction at Treez
-40%KB + workflow design
KB articles authored
75+internal + external
Trust & Safety Support Operations AI Operations Technical Operations Program Management Knowledge Systems Risk Operations Process Design Trust & Safety Support Operations AI Operations Technical Operations Program Management Knowledge Systems Risk Operations Process Design
Looking for → Trust & Safety Operations AI & Risk Operations Support & CX Operations Program & Process Management Knowledge & Enablement Technical Operations
About

Hawa Rahimi

I've spent my career understanding how systems work, and more importantly, why they fail.

I started in a SaaS support role at Treez, an early-stage startup where the product and the team were both still taking shape. That environment taught me quickly that most operational problems are not technical at their core. They're structural. A poorly designed escalation path, a policy that seems clear on paper but becomes ambiguous in practice. I'm good at finding those gaps and closing them. At Treez that meant building a knowledge base where none existed, designing Zendesk workflows, and cutting repetitive ticket volume by 40% while the product was still actively evolving around us.

Nearly three years in Trust & Safety at Meta sharpened how I think under pressure. Working in a constantly evolving policy environment taught me how to make high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, stay consistent at scale, and know when escalation creates more value than immediate action. Reviewing more than 1,200 cases a day while maintaining 94%+ quality also gave me a front-row seat to how AI and human judgment work together, and where that partnership succeeds or falls short.

At Go Green, I owned operations end to end. I managed POS infrastructure, helpdesk support, vendor relationships, staff training, and the documentation that made all of it repeatable. I care about building systems that continue to work when I'm not in the room.

Outside of work, I'm fascinated by design, online culture, human behavior, and the ways technology shapes how people think, communicate, and make decisions. I pay attention to patterns that others often overlook, and that curiosity carries into everything I build.

Whether I'm improving a workflow, investigating a problem, creating documentation, or supporting AI-assisted operations, my approach is the same: understand the system, find the friction, and build something better.

2025
Now
Support Workflow Advisor
Freelance · Remote
I work with early-stage companies to help them understand what a well-structured support operation looks like before they need one. That includes how to think about ticket categorization, escalation paths, and reporting so when volume grows, the foundation is already there.
2022
2025
Helpdesk & Operations Lead
Go Green Modesto · Hybrid
Owned helpdesk and operations for a high-volume facility. Maintained 99% uptime across POS, network, and critical hardware. Built the ticketing system, internal knowledge base, and security SOPs from scratch. Primary escalation point for staff, vendors, and leadership.
2019
2022
Trust & Safety Analyst
Meta Platforms via BCforward / Accenture · Hybrid
Reviewed 1,200+ high-risk profiles daily against platform policies while maintaining 94%+ quality standards. Specialized in edge cases, escalations, and enforcement consistency. Worked within human-in-the-loop AI moderation systems where reviewer decisions, escalation outcomes, and policy feedback directly contributed to the ongoing improvement of AI-assisted enforcement workflows. Advanced across four specialized enforcement teams based on performance.
2018
Senior Support Lead & Knowledge Base Specialist
Treez Inc.
Built the internal and external knowledge bases from the ground up. Developed SOPs, decision trees, and Zendesk workflows that cut ticket volume by 40% and improved QA consistency. Partnered with Engineering to troubleshoot software issues and led onboarding and customer education initiatives.
Capabilities

Where I Work.

Four domains, one consistent approach: find what's broken at the structural level, not just the surface.

01
Trust & Safety
Nearly 3 years at Meta reviewing 1,200+ cases daily. Real pattern recognition built under real pressure. Not in a lab, in production. I understand how AI-assisted moderation works from the inside.
Content ModerationPolicy EnforcementRisk AssessmentQA CalibrationAbuse DetectionEnforcement Consistency
02
Support Operations & SaaS
Zendesk, KB architecture, workflow design that actually scales. I've built support systems from nothing and rebuilt ones that were quietly broken, at a SaaS startup and in a high-volume operational environment.
ZendeskJiraSalesforceServiceNowEscalation ManagementSLA ManagementWorkflow Optimization
03
Technical Operations
End-to-end technical ownership for a high-volume facility: POS infrastructure, network reliability, hardware troubleshooting, vendor management, and internal SOP development. 99% uptime for 2.5 years through structure, not heroics.
Technical TroubleshootingPOS SystemsNetwork TroubleshootingSOP DevelopmentVendor Management
04
Knowledge Systems
SOPs, escalation frameworks, knowledge bases, and calibration systems built across multiple roles. I design documentation that people actually use because it's structured around how work happens, not how it's supposed to happen on paper.
KB DevelopmentSOP CreationInformation ArchitectureProcess DocumentationDecision FrameworksConfluence
Record

The Numbers.

8+

Years across Trust & Safety, Technical Operations, SaaS support, and freelance advisory. Each role built on the one before it.

95-98%
Typical SLA compliance across support operations
4 Teams
Advanced across four specialized enforcement teams at Meta based on performance
10 Certs
Google Cybersecurity Specialization, HIPAA, PMI, and individual course completions
01
High-risk content review at scale
1,200+ cases daily at Meta. 94% quality score in an environment with frequent policy updates and no room for error.
94% QA
02
99% uptime across critical infrastructure
Technical operations ownership at Go Green. POS, network, and hardware maintained at near-perfect uptime for 2.5 years.
99% uptime
03
40% ticket reduction through KB and workflow design
Built knowledge bases and Zendesk macros at Treez that eliminated a significant share of repetitive inbound tickets without adding headcount.
-40% tickets
04
75+ knowledge base articles authored
Internal and external documentation structured for discoverability and maintained as the product changed around it.
75+ articles
05
Improved edge case scoring consistency
Developed calibration processes and feedback loops that improved how moderators scored ambiguous, high-risk profiles, reducing variance across the team.
QA Calibration
The most persistent operational problems are caused by systems that make it difficult for people to do the right thing consistently.
Hawa Rahimi  ·  Mapping the Bottleneck
Case Studies

Operational Investigations.

Reconstructions of real operational problems: how I identified them, worked through them, and resolved them.

Support Operations · Treez Inc.
How a knowledge base cut ticket volume by 40%
Inbound support was drowning in repetitive questions that had clear, documentable answers. An investigation into why they kept arriving anyway, and the fix that actually worked.
ZendeskKB ArchitectureWorkflow Automation
Trust & Safety · Meta / BCforward
Improving enforcement consistency across a moderation team
At 1,200+ cases per day, small calibration gaps compound into thousands of inconsistent decisions per week. An investigation into the structural sources of QA variance.
Policy CalibrationQA FrameworksHuman + AI Review
Technical Operations · Go Green
POS reliability and the real cost of unplanned downtime
A high-volume retail environment where POS failure means revenue loss in real time. How I built the systems that kept uptime at 99% for two and a half years.
POS SystemsNetwork TroubleshootingSOP Design
Cybersecurity · Technical Operations
Phishing Walkthrough: Anatomy of a Social Engineering Attempt
A real phishing attempt identified not by automated tools, but by reading the behavioral signals. How I analyzed it and turned it into a security SOP for non-technical staff.
Threat AnalysisSecurity SOPsStaff Training
Support Operations · Freelance
Escalation without infrastructure: building from scratch
A growing company losing customers to issues that weren't being tracked, routed, or resolved consistently. What it looked like to build a real escalation path from nothing.
Escalation DesignTicket TriageReporting
Process Design · Cross-functional
Mapping the bottleneck: where support workflows break
Queues slow down because of structural friction that compounds quietly. A diagnostic framework developed across multiple environments to find exactly where that friction lives.
Process MappingRoot Cause AnalysisWorkflow Design
Perspective

How I Think.

Short pieces on systems, operations, and digital culture. Patterns I keep noticing, written down.

001
Operational clarity is a form of respect
Ambiguous processes waste people's time and quietly erode trust. When I build clear systems, I'm not just optimizing. I'm communicating that people's effort actually matters.
Operations·Process Design
002
The hidden psychology of support queues
Support systems don't just process requests. They carry emotional weight. How a ticket is routed, acknowledged, and resolved shapes whether someone ever trusts the platform again.
Support Systems·UX
003
What Trust & Safety taught me about the internet
Spending years reviewing edge cases taught me that the internet is less about technology than people. Every policy, product decision, and moderation system eventually runs into the complexity of human behavior.
Trust & Safety·Digital Culture
004
The tension between automation and judgment
Automation handles volume. Judgment handles context. The most interesting problems live in the space between them, where rules end and human interpretation begins.
AI Systems·Moderation
005
How ambiguity compounds in enforcement workflows
One unclear policy definition creates a dozen inconsistent decisions per reviewer per day. Multiply that across a team and you don't have a moderation system. You have noise.
Policy Design·QA
006
A knowledge base is infrastructure, not documentation
A knowledge base isn't just a collection of articles. It's organizational memory. When it's built well, teams move faster, decisions become more consistent, and critical knowledge stops living inside a handful of people's heads.
KB Design·Ops Intelligence
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