Summary
Ahmed Akhtar is a Senior Application Architect and full-stack engineer based in Chicago with eight years' experience delivering CRM, data pipeline, and UX-driven solutions across finance, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors. He combines strong backend expertise in Node.js and Spring Boot with front-end skills in React/React Native, shipping mobile and web apps from prototype to App Store and Heroku deployments. At organizations from Bank of America to startups like EventSensei and OnTargetClinical he has built forms-driven medical workflows, QR-based guest check-in systems, and analytics pipelines using both SQL and NoSQL databases. A dual-degree holder in Accounting and Finance who completed a Northwestern full-stack bootcamp, he often bridges product, data, and engineering—bringing practical domain understanding to technical design and automation. Notably, he has applied advanced Excel/VBA and Power Automate for large-scale data migrations and trained colleagues in database and web development best practices.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Degrees Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Science Degrees Accounting and Finance at Northeastern Illinois University
Full Stack Web Development Certification Programming/Web Development BootCamp, Full Stack Web Development Certification Programming/Web Development BootCamp at Northwestern University