Aisha Ahmad
Senior Software Engineer at Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
United States
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Top SchoolAisha Ahmad is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of full‑stack experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, React, Vue, and GraphQL, currently building product at Kit after a technical lead track at Sittercity. She excels at turning ambiguous product ideas into pragmatic technical plans, mentoring junior engineers, and shipping front-to-back solutions that reduce friction for teammates. Aisha learned RoR on the job after a Northwestern coding bootcamp and quickly introduced her team’s first React app at Home Chef, demonstrating a knack for picking up new stacks and driving adoption. Her background in biological research and medicine gives her a data‑driven, methodical approach to problem solving and a curiosity for domain complexity beyond software. Colleagues describe her as a hands‑on leader who balances code ownership with team growth and product-minded engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Boot Camp Certificate Web Development, Coding Boot Camp Certificate Web Development at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Biology/Biological Sciences General at University of ChicagoNorthside College Prep HS
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Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
aishaprograms/Lively
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 months
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aishaprograms/nyt-search-app
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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