Ahmed Fasih
Senior Frontend Engineer at Verkada
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhmed Fasih is a Senior Frontend Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building high-performance, data-intensive web apps and full-stack systems. He blends deep quantitative and signal-processing roots with pragmatic frontend expertise, shipping real-time TypeScript/React applications for trading desks and consumer-facing products. Ahmed has contributed to flagship open-source projects like JupyterLab and IPython, improving UI/UX and backend inspection tooling that benefit the wider scientific Python ecosystem. Comfortable across Python, C++, and embedded stacks, he frequently bridges hardware, backend, and frontend teams to deliver polished, production-grade interfaces. Known by colleagues as a “coding tactical nuke,” he channels that intensity into mentoring, collaboration, and hunting down elusive bugs—once fixing an infinite-loop symlink in webpack. He holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and enjoys applying Fourier methods and numerical techniques to practical product problems.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Japanese, French, Hindi
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
python10
jupyter10
typescript10
ipython10
ui-design10
jupyterlab10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
signal-processing9
scipy9
matlab9
Programming languages (42)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the JupyterLab environment. They focused on implementing and refining UI components, specifically working on the `MainAreaWidget`. Their commits involved creating a new header for the toolbar, adding a custom header panel, and integrating a command to toggle the header's visibility. They also made a change to move the functionality from `notebook-extension` to `apputils-extension` and adjusted label and visibility of commands.
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ipython/ipython
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Ahmed focused on enhancing the internal workings of the IPython project. Their contributions centered on modifying the `object_inspect_mime` method within the `interactiveshell` module to improve docstring formatting and integrating Sphinx functionality. Furthermore, they addressed code style with "darker" changes, and refined the information output by specifying and implementing the `omit_sections` feature, and avoiding a mutable default argument. Their work primarily involved the core IPython project's backend logic and interactive features.
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