Akhlaq Ahmad
Senior Software Engineering Manager at ACI Worldwide
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAkhlaq Ahmad is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with over 20 years' experience leading global teams to design, deliver and support mission-critical electronic payments and testing products. He has a strong record of building centres of excellence, scaling talent from graduates to subject-matter experts, and driving product and cultural transformation during ACI's growth from $300M to $1B. Comfortable both in startup trenches and large enterprise programmes, he blends hands-on technical judgement—especially in payment engines, test automation and CI/CD toolchains—with strategic planning, budget ownership and change leadership. He is known for practical, people-first management: coaching without micromanaging, removing roadblocks and embedding reusable testing frameworks that saved millions by replacing physical devices. Based in the UK, Akhlaq pairs deep payments domain expertise with a knack for turning complex customer challenges into repeatable, revenue-generating products.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Parent Governor, Parent Governor at Frizinghall Primary SchoolBTEC National Computer Studies (Distinction), Computer Engineering, BTEC National Computer Studies (Distinction), Computer Engineering at Bradford CollegeGCSE English, Maths, Physics, Humanities, Office Studies, Urdu.., GCSE English, Maths, Physics, Humanities, Office Studies, Urdu.. at Beckfoot Grammar SchoolBSc (Hons) Applied Computing, Software engineering, BSc (Hons) Applied Computing, Software engineering at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (7)
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vscode4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imakhlaq/netflixClone
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
imakhlaq/algorithm-visualizer
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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