Adam Ahmed
Co-Founder CTO at Released
Sydney, New South Wales, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Ahmed is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building developer tools and consumer-facing products, now serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Released. He spent nine years at Atlassian as a driving force behind Bitbucket Server’s frontend, evolving it from an early codebase into a robust, maintainable product and shaping engineering practices across teams. Adam combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (Swift, React Native, TypeScript, and signal processing for mobile sensors) with product-minded leadership—running teams, mentoring engineers, and instituting quarterly reviews to improve outcomes. He’s built startups and shipped production Firebase backends, real‑time experiences, and custom PPG heart‑rate sensing on mobile, showing a knack for translating user needs into polished technical solutions. Based in Sydney, he now focuses on making customer conversations timely and relevant through his new company, applying both empathy and engineering rigor. Colleagues describe him as someone who cares deeply about developer experience and scalable company culture—down to debating the right border thickness.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
testing10
prosemirror10
browser10
firefox10
api10
zero-dependencies10
draft-js10
child-process10
fetch10
nodejs10
svelte10
contenteditable10
react-query10
windows10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hitsthings/dragonfjord-puzzle-solver
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
hitsthings/grunt-heroku-deploy
Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 7 months
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