Asad Ahmed
Software Engineer at Varnish Software
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolAsad Ahmed is a software engineer based in Oslo with 7 years of experience building system- and back-end software in C, Python, and Java. He holds a Master's in Informatics (Programming and Networks) from the University of Oslo and has contributed to core open-source projects like Varnish Cache, where his work improved logging precision and memory-pool robustness—showing comfort with performance-sensitive, low-level code. Currently at Varnish Software, he combines academic grounding and teaching experience with practical system development and a history of freelance FOSS work. Prior roles in retail and as a teaching assistant give him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to solving engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Oslo
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (9)
c1710
http10
caching10
high-performance10
reverse-proxy10
c1110
debug9
memory-management9
debugging9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
varnishcache/varnish-cache
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Varnish Cache source code repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Asad primarily contributed to the Varnish Cache source code, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to logging, and internal code improvements. The commits showcase the user's proficiency in modifying the core functionalities of Varnish Cache, specifically related to logging request times in milliseconds and integrating additional magic checks for memory pool management. Their work also involved fixing H2 pseudo-headers.
cachingreverse-proxycode-repositorycachevarnish-cache
asadsa92/varnish-modules
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Collection of Varnish Cache modules (vmods) by Varnish Software
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
varnish-cachevarnishcache
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