Aasim Ahmed
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAasim Ahmed is a Dubai-based co-founder and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience building e-commerce operations and product-led solutions across MENA. He combines hands-on vendor and catalog management at talabat with early-stage AI startup leadership, focusing on learning algorithms and improving customer experiences. Pragmatic and results-driven, he has led large-scale catalog migrations, established SOPs for dark stores, and accelerated partner onboarding and operational performance. Technically literate from practical engineering contributions, he improved a popular open-source YouTube downloader by fixing types, adding rich metadata, and optimizing chunked downloads and tests. He started in direct-to-consumer selling and ecommerce marketing, giving him a rare blend of product, ops, and technical insight. Always curious, he seeks collaborators who want to turn messy operational problems into scalable, user-centric solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Marketing, Bachelor's degree, Marketing at American University of Sharjah
Hindi, Urdu, English
Github Skills (10)
video-download10
scraper10
javascript10
nodejs10
type-definition10
youtube10
testing10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fent/node-ytdl-core
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
YouTube video downloader in javascript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aasim primarily focused on improving the type definitions and functionality of the YouTube downloader. They fixed type definition issues, added features like likes/dislikes and rich thumbnails to the related videos data, and incorporated new information into the video details. In addition, the user implemented critical performance enhancements related to chunked video downloads, addressing several existing issues. The user also contributed test cases to validate the new functionalities.
downloadervideo-downloaderjavascriptyoutube-videoyoutube
Aasim-A/yt-xml2srt
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Easily convert YouTube caption format from XML to SRT with zero dependencies
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 10 months
dependenciesyoutubeyoutube-captioncaptionsconverter
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