Fayaz Ahmed is a Forward Deployed Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building automation and customer-facing engineering solutions. He specializes in reducing manual work through TypeScript and Python workflows, having eliminated up to 100% of human input across 20+ projects and driven similar automation gains at healthcare-focused AKASA. Fayaz combines hands-on technical delivery with people leadership—managing a team of six deployment engineers and serving as primary engineering contact for 10+ customers while acting as a tech lead to unblock projects. He has a strong data and optimization background from a BMath in Honours Statistics with a combinatorics and optimization minor from University of Waterloo, which informs his approach to scalable tooling and tracking systems. Less obvious, he pairs rapid prototyping instincts with operational discipline, having rebuilt company-wide ticketing and onboarding systems to accelerate growth and cross-team knowledge transfer.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BMath, Honours Statistics, minoring in Combinatorics and Optimization, 3.7/4.0, BMath, Honours Statistics, minoring in Combinatorics and Optimization, 3.7/4.0 at University of Waterloo
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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Fayaz Ahmed - Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Luminai