Ahmed Khanzada
Director Of Customer Success at Neara
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
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (82)
benchmark10
cider10
refactoring10
linux10
openstep10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
aspell10
common-lisp10
scheme10
evaluation10
emacs-package10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
enzuru/company-spell
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
A hackable minimalist framework for spellchecking
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 65 pushes in 3 months
spellcheckingaspellcounselemacshunspell
enzuru/bsd-lisp-machine
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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