Ahmad Shiina
CEO & Founder at Pinewind AI
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Shiina is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience, currently CEO and Founder of Pinewind AI, an AI consultancy that helps SMBs and startups find and implement practical automation opportunities. He spent over a decade as Co-founder and CTO of Timers Inc., scaling engineering teams of 20+ and overseeing products used by millions while managing P/L, KPIs, and go-to-market initiatives. Ahmad combines deep hands-on engineering (early AI work and open-source tooling like a local AWS Lambda runner) with strategic leadership—running cross-functional org design, hiring, and growth marketing. Based in The Hague, he brings a pragmatic approach to turning inefficient processes into integrated AI solutions, and has personally advised more than 20 CXOs on technology and engineering strategy.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering + International Relations, Bachelor, Software Engineering + International Relations at 早稲田大学 / Waseda UniversityIB, Economics, History, Chemistry, etc., IB, Economics, History, Chemistry, etc. at St. Mary's International School
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
aws-lambda10
aws10
command-line-tool10
nodejs10
aws-sdk9
environment-variables8
json8
html6
while-loop6
mysqli6
codeigniter6
php6
synchronization6
memcached6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ashiina/lambda-local
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Commandline tool to run Amazon Lambda function on local machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 123 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the development of a command-line tool designed to run AWS Lambda functions locally. Their work included creating stub objects for the Lambda context, adding and modifying example functions and event payloads for different AWS services (DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis), and refactoring the code for program execution. They also implemented features such as outputting results in JSON format and integrating environment variables. Furthermore, the user added tests for the added functionalities.
lambdalambda-functionmachinescommandline-toolserverless
ashiina/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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