Summary
Assad Ahmad is a Technical Lead with 8+ years of focused experience delivering web and enterprise systems across UK public and private sectors, currently leading engineering efforts at HM Revenue & Customs. He combines hands-on frontend expertise—recently building React-based admin tooling with Jest and Cypress—with a long history of backend and full-stack work dating back to early roles in Java and UNIX environments. Assad has a strong coaching bent, having trained and mentored apprentices and colleagues in Java, JavaScript, DevOps and Agile practices for multiple organisations. He’s delivered technical leadership for high-throughput e-commerce and government platforms, driving code quality, CI practices and pragmatic solutions to production issues. Based in Stevenage, he blends practical implementation skills with people-focused leadership, and maintains a track record of moving projects from design through to production while improving team capability.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Mathematics Business Studies, Computing Mathematics Business Studies at Xaverian College
2:1 Software Engineering with placement, 2:1 Software Engineering with placement at The Manchester Metropolitan University