Ahmed Khanzada
Head Of Engineering And Product at American Safety Institute
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Khanzada is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience taking products from 0 to 1 for startups and Fortune 500s, currently serving as Head of Engineering and Product in Los Angeles. He blends hands-on software development, product management, and CTO-level architecture to deliver serverless, highly available systems (99.99% uptime) and has led major migrations and performance improvements across Azure, AWS, ECS, EKS, and S3. Notable achievements include moving Disney’s film distribution from tape to a fast Azure delivery product, optimizing SDLC and deployment speed for Virgin’s Hyperloop algorithms, and engineering the world's first nuclear-compliant cloud platform at McKinsey. Ahmed is pragmatic about developer productivity—he reorganizes teams and introduces AI tooling to accelerate delivery by multiples while maintaining security and SRE discipline. Equally committed to people, he mentors engineers and product managers to grow career-wise while owning go-to-market and customer success as a solutions architect. A self-described "hacker & pilgrim," he combines deep systems expertise with an uncommon track record across media, transportation, defense, and fintech.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (103)
sylvester10
refactoring10
lisp-interpreter10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
aspell10
elisp10
pane10
common-lisp10
scheme10
editing10
evaluation10
ispell10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
enzuru/native-comp-elisp-benchmarks
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
A repo of elisp-benchmarks with native compilation
Contributions:2 reviews, 48 commits, 14 PRs in 5 months
benchmarkelispbenchmarkscompilationemacs
enzuru/profiles
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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