Ahmed Jazzar
Staff Software Engineer at Iru
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhmed Jazzar is a Staff Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building scalable Python and cloud-native systems across startups and global tech firms, including Google and Walmart. He specializes in MLOps, GenAI integration, and AI-powered security platforms, and has repeatedly moved projects from research to production while co-authoring a research paper. Ahmed blends full-stack engineering with product-minded business analysis—leading teams, wrangling technical debt, and shipping developer-facing automation on Kubernetes and GCP. An active open-source contributor, he added extensive Arabic localization to the widely used Faker library, reflecting a practical focus on international developer experience. Known for turning ambiguous problems into reliable systems, he pairs deep technical craft with a designer’s eye for usable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ibn Sina School's Degree, Computer Science, Ibn Sina School's Degree, Computer Science at Ibn Sina School for Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Jordan
English, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
python10
internationalization10
faker10
localization10
arabic10
test-data9
datasets9
synthetic-data9
compression6
html6
mongodb6
heroku6
api6
css6
django6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
joke2k/faker
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ahmed's commits primarily focus on adding localization support for the Faker library, specifically for Arabic-speaking regions. They introduced Arabic language providers for jobs, person data (names), date/time formats, colors, lorem ipsum text, license plates, and phone numbers. This indicates a strong focus on adapting the library to cater to the needs of Arabic-speaking developers and users.
pythontest-datatestingdummy-datadataset
iamjazzar/django-mako
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
The first simple, elegant Django Mako library
Contributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 42 commits in 5 years 3 months
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangomakomako-package
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