Afra Ahmad
VP Of Engineering at Beyond Finance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAfra Ahmad is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience and a deep roots-in-practice background as a software engineer and applications architect. Currently VP of Engineering at Beyond Finance in New York, she prefers small, agile teams and startup environments where she can rapidly adopt new technologies and influence product direction. Her hands-on expertise spans product design, database and infrastructure architecture, Linux administration (Debian/Ubuntu), and a long history with Ruby/Rails, Perl, SQL and JavaScript-driven UIs. Across roles from senior engineer to engineering manager, she has owned the full delivery lifecycle—feature design, revision control, deployment and ops—while mentoring teams to ship reliable systems. Trained in both computer science and philosophy, she brings analytical rigor and pragmatic product sensibility to complex technical trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels (British High School), Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, A-Levels (British High School), Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, United KingdomBS, Philosophy and Computer Science, BS, Philosophy and Computer Science at State University of New York at Buffalo
Github Skills (40)
unit-test7
intelligent6
rspec6
rails6
ruby-on-rails5
decrypt5
ruby5
sidekiq5
cucumber5
testing5
ember-addon5
spec5
opensearch4
json-data4
search-engine4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aahmad/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 28 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Beyond-Finance/deposits_exercise
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
Deposits Exercise
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
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