Foysal Ahamed
Senior Software Engineer at Bluesky PBLLC
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolFoysal Ahamed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Turin with 11 years of experience turning ideas into production-ready products across startups and fast-growing platforms. He’s fluent across the stack—shipping front-end UX improvements and mobile fixes as well as backend moderation, indexing, and performance work for projects like the well-known Bluesky social platform. Comfortable leading agile teams or single-handedly owning entire platforms, he’s navigated rapid scale-ups and legacy-to-modern migrations in industries worldwide. Pragmatic and product-focused, he pairs strong engineering craft with a knack for user-facing detail (and the occasional nap between commits).
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di TorinoH.S.C, Science, A+, H.S.C, Science, A+ at Govt. Science college and schoolUniversità degli Studi di Palermo
English, Italian, Bengali, German
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modx10
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react10
mobile-development9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bluesky-social/atproto
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Social networking technology created by Bluesky
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:200 reviews, 158 PRs, 497 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Foysal's commits primarily revolve around implementing and modifying backend functionalities within the Bluesky social networking technology, specifically focusing on moderation features. Their work includes allowing the ignoring and reverting of moderation reports, refactoring code for report sorting, and introducing new endpoints for account management. They also developed and maintained communication templates, including language support for messages. The user also worked on setting up indexes and filter for performance improvement.
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bluesky-social/social-app
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Foysal primarily contributed to the front-end of the Bluesky Social application, focusing on user interface improvements and feature enhancements. They implemented the hiding of the "Add to List" option on a user's own profile, refactored and repurposed report modals, and addressed mobile UI issues. In addition, the user worked on list management features, including the removal of the lists tab when the last list is removed and integrating listeners for list deletions. Their work touches on both UI and state management aspects of the application.
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