Ahmet Soormally
Vice President Of Product at Goldealers
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAhmet Soormally is a Principal Solutions Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience blending hands-on backend development, product leadership, and startup founding. He has led R&D at Tyk—contributing to the popular open-source Tyk API Gateway in Go—and now accelerates adoption of WunderGraph’s Cosmo GraphQL federation platform through prototypes, workshops, and SDK and docs improvements. As founder and CEO of Goldealers he combines entrepreneurial instincts with a track record of scaling engineering teams and mentoring talent. His background in cybernetics and internet technology gives him a systems-oriented approach to API and developer experience challenges. Notably, his open-source commits include fixing edge-case panics and auth-handling in a widely used API gateway, reflecting a focus on robustness under production pressure.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Internet Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Internet Technology at University of EssexBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Cybernetics & Control Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Cybernetics & Control Engineering at University of Reading
English, creoles and pidgins, french-based, Turkish, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (16)
api-management10
go10
api-gateway10
mysql9
jwt9
reverse-proxy9
laravel9
php9
authentication9
microservices8
microservices-application8
csrf-protection6
sailsjs6
jquery6
gruntjs6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk
Sep 2017 - Nov 2021
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 94 commits, 113 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily focused on modifying the Tyk API Gateway's backend functionality. Their commits addressed issues related to API activation status, ensuring inactive APIs are skipped by the gateway. They also reverted a previous change and implemented fixes to the handling of 403 responses from the dashboard, preventing a panic condition. Furthermore, they contributed to the functionality of stripping auth data.
api-gatewaygographqlgrpcrest
TykTechnologies/tyk-email-driver
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Common Tyk mmail driver
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
drivertyk
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