Ahmad Samiei
Engineering Manager at Bird
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAhmad Samiei is an engineering manager with over 14 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently leading teams at Bird and shaping engineering culture across large organizations. He blends deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD), and high-availability design with pragmatic leadership that drives CI/CD, TDD, observability, and cost-performance optimization. Ahmad has led cloud migrations and refactors at scale (Coolblue, PostNL), built data pipelines and real-time systems, and routinely balances product needs with maintainability and operational ownership. He brings a developer-first management style—mentoring, conducting technical interviews, and embedding best practices—while still contributing to test automation work on notable open-source projects like pusher-js. Comfortable across PHP, TypeScript, Java, Python, and Go, he pairs broad language fluency with proven experience on AWS, Kubernetes, and modern data stores to deliver resilient, efficient systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering , Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at DPI
Persian, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
jasmine10
k10
integration-testing10
testing10
websocket7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pusher/pusher-js
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Pusher Javascript library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 23 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ahmad's contributions primarily involve upgrading and adapting the testing infrastructure for the Pusher Javascript library. They addressed issues related to Jasmine and Karma, including syntax changes, random test execution, and timeout issues. The user also added and modified integration tests, incorporating asynchronous testing practices and implementing test utilities like `waitsFor`. This indicates a focus on maintaining and improving the reliability and stability of the project through automated testing.
javascriptjavascript-librarypusher
amad/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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