Abdulwahaab Ahmed 🍉
Senior Application Security Engineer
Canada
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Top SchoolAbdulwahaab Ahmed is a Senior Application Security Engineer at Shopify with a decade of hands-on experience in application security, secure development, and vulnerability research. He rose through multiple roles at Shopify — from intern to senior engineer — blending offensive (CTF/breaking) and defensive (building secure systems) mindsets to solve hard security problems. Comfortable across the full stack, he has contributed front-end and Rails engine improvements to prominent open-source projects like the Shopify app framework, improving maintainability and clarity. Based in Canada, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for breaking and rebuilding systems, which informs robust, developer-friendly security solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
rails10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
shopify10
html9
turbolinks8
back-end-development8
css7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify_app
Feb 2019 - May 2020
A Rails Engine for building Shopify Apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Abdulwahaab primarily focused on front-end and Rails Engine related changes within the Shopify app framework. Their work included moving inline JavaScript to asset files, refactoring existing JavaScript, and modifying layout files. The user also addressed code conflicts and renamed element IDs and JavaScript variables for improved clarity. Furthermore, the user updated various Shopify app configurations.
railsrails-enginehotel-bookingshopify-appsruby
Abdulwahaab710/dotfiles
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
All my dot files [vim, tmux, zsh, kwm, khd, chunkwmrc, i3, ranger, alacritty]
Contributions:293 commits, 76 PRs, 227 pushes in 6 years 2 months
vimalacrittychunkwmtmux-configurationneovim
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