Akram Ahmad
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkram Ahmad is a founder and independent software developer in Austin with ~8 years of focused experience building cloud-native, edge, and AI-powered products and platforms. He built IdeaShorts.ai end-to-end, marrying modern LLM tooling, video pipeline automation, deployment automation, observability, and payments to turn long-form writing into ready-to-post social shorts. Former Principal Software Engineer at Dell and senior engineering roles across CCC, UnitedHealth, GM, and PayPal, he brings hands-on architecture, distributed systems and Kafka-based experience to senior technical leadership roles. An active backend contributor to the EdgeX Foundry edgex-go monorepo, he’s worked on MongoDB client refactors, API handlers, and data model improvements for IoT/edge services. He also writes long-form essays and four books in "The Programming Imagination" series, blending engineering craft with culture and creativity. Akram is open to Principal/Staff/Engineering Lead roles focused on AI infrastructure, edge computing, and high-impact SaaS where founder-level execution matters.
8 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of HoustonMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityUniversity of Cambridge School Certificate High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, University of Cambridge School Certificate High School/Secondary Certificate Programs at Aitchison College
English
Github Skills (8)
go10
backend10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
apidoc9
api9
data-modeling8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
edgexfoundry/edgex-go
Jun 2018 - May 2020
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo | Owner: Core/Support WG
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 86 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:The user, Akram Ahmad, primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the EdgeX Go services monorepo. Their work focused on implementing and refactoring the MongoDB client for notifications, including adding and updating database interaction methods. They also restructured the code for better organization and made updates to API endpoint handlers to work with the database client implementations. The user also made changes to include an origin field in the Notification model and unit tests, indicating their involvement with data model enhancements.
golangmonorepo
akramtexas/edgex-go
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo
Contributions:1129 pushes, 125 branches, 24 comments in 2 years 7 months
golangmonorepo
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