Ahmad Benmrad is a digital transformation consultant and founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building secure, production-grade web and AI solutions for enterprises and SMEs from Zurich. He combines a strong technical foundation in computer science and full‑stack development with strategic finance transformation expertise gained as a Manager at Deloitte, specializing in (Gen)AI for finance. Ahmad has an entrepreneurial track record—co-founding a fitness app and launching two consultancies focused on safe, sovereign generative AI adoption and bespoke digital products for European SMEs. He contributes to open-source projects such as libsodium.js, where he improved test suites and implemented string/Uint8Array conversion helpers, reflecting attention to crypto-adjacent tooling and reliability. Comfortable switching between low-level engineering (real-time lab interfaces, WebAssembly work) and high-level transformation programs, he brings pragmatic technical leadership that translates complex requirements into secure, auditable solutions. Fluent across multicultural environments, his background spans EPFL, HEC Lausanne and an exchange at St.Gallen, marrying technical depth with business acumen.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange semester, Exchange semester at University of St.Gallen
Master of Science - MSc Information Systems, Master of Science - MSc Information Systems at HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne
Collège des Bergières, Lausanne
High School, High School at Lycée Français International Georges Pompidou, Dubai
libsodium compiled to Webassembly and pure JavaScript, with convenient wrappers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the JavaScript-based front-end of the library, specifically focusing on test suite implementation and helper methods. They made significant changes to the test suite, adding test pages and vectors. Furthermore, they were responsible for the conversion methods between strings and Uint8Arrays.
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