Summary
Ash Kamel is an engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling resilient, high-performance systems across payments, cloud platforms, and developer tools. He has led multi-regional teams and transformed engineering practices—improving CI reliability, DORA metrics, and developer experience while introducing DevSecOps and responsible AI into product flows. At Zip Co and GitHub he drove platform and product initiatives that reduced process timelines from weeks to hours and enabled rapid market launches in Canada and Mexico. A hands-on mentor and career architect, he’s created staff engineering standards and promoted leaders from within. Based in New York, he pairs first-principles problem solving with a referee’s discipline—evident in years coaching and officiating competitive soccer—bringing calm judgment to high-pressure technical decisions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology