Ahmed Khaleel
Scholar Finalist at Neo
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Khaleel is a product-minded software engineer and founder based in Toronto, building developer tools and scalable systems while studying Software Engineering at McMaster University. In three years he’s shipped GitDiagram, an open-source project that reached #1 trending on GitHub, 250k+ users, 14k+ stars, and wide viral traction across HN, Product Hunt and social platforms. He combines full‑stack development with backend infrastructure work—setting up Postgres schemas and CI/CD—for reliable, production-ready deployments. Past roles include being ElevenLabs’ first intern and a Production Engineering Fellow working on monitoring and scalable CI/CD for Linux VPS environments. He also builds ML tooling and teaches workshops, blending hands-on engineering with community education. Pragmatic and entrepreneurial, he repeatedly turns small teams and solo projects into tools used by large developer audiences.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. Software Engineering, Software Engineering, B.Eng. Software Engineering, Software Engineering at McMaster UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at International BaccalaureateOSSD, OSSD at Ancaster High School
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
postgresql10
github10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
nextjs9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
system-design8
ai4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ahmedkhaleel2004/gitdiagram
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Free, simple, fast interactive diagrams for any GitHub repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed's commits primarily focused on setting up and configuring a database for the "gitdiagram" project, which involves creating a free, simple, and fast interactive diagrams for GitHub repositories. They set up the database environment, including Postgres configurations, schema, and database access details. The user implemented the initial structure for the application, setting up the main page. This work suggests the user is establishing the foundational infrastructure of the backend and frontend components.
aisystem-design
ahmedkhaleel2004/DeepEnd
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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