Basil Gohar
Founder & CTO at AMDNow!
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBasil Mohamed Gohar is a founder and CTO with 20+ years of software engineering experience who builds and scales education-focused platforms, currently leading product, architecture, and infrastructure for HidayahSIS. He blends hands-on PHP and Laravel development with pragmatic engineering leadership—having run teams, led LMS cloud migrations, and transitioned organizations to agile, sprint-driven delivery. Basil has deep domain expertise in student information systems and Moodle integrations, and a track record of shipping both legacy migrations and greenfield web applications while maintaining hosting and operational responsibilities. He’s comfortable across the stack—from server and database architecture to front-end and client-facing portals—and has managed multidisciplinary teams of engineers, QA, and data specialists. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs entrepreneurial drive (founding HidayahTech and a tech news site) with a long history of mentoring engineers and applying industry standards like PSR and OWASP. A devoted family person and early web developer since 2004, he brings steady, practical stewardship to education technology projects.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (137)
tasks10
encoder9
javascript9
credit-card9
laravel9
act9
invoice9
php9
kanban9
flutter9
react8
ssl-certificate8
financial8
encrypt7
sms7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
eschool/db_object
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 1 month
basilgohar/rav1e
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
av1-encoderencoderfastestav1
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