Gulzar Ahmed
Senior Software Engineer at Stream
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGulzar Ahmed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of experience building high-performance Android apps and real-time media systems. He combines deep Android Framework expertise and a keen UI/UX sensibility with backend and cloud deployment skills, having implemented end-to-end features from client-side caching and server-driven UI to media servers and WebRTC. Gulzar has shipped consumer-facing products at scale—working on apps with millions of daily users and real-time video at companies like ShareChat, 100ms, and now Stream. He’s comfortable reverse-engineering, scripting, and automating workflows (evident from personal projects like an Instagram auto-liker bot with Slack notifications). Equally at home in Kotlin and systems-level work, he has a track record of taking full ownership of features that improve engagement, performance, and discoverability. Curious and pragmatic, he often bridges product and platform needs to deliver elegant, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Christ University, Bangalore
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
bots10
nodejs10
javascript10
googlebot10
expressjs9
environment-variables9
slack9
api-design8
github-ci6
githubaction-workflow6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gulzar1996/auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Bot to automatically like your friend's Instagram post and notify you on Slack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gulzar primarily focused on back-end development, modifying the core logic of the Instagram bot. They changed the cron job configuration to run the bot, updated the port settings, and adjusted the environment variable names. Further contributions included incorporating the dotenv library and refactoring the code to enhance readability.
botinstagram-postslackfriendinstagram
gulzar1996/eventer-app
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:133 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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