Hosain Al Ahmad
Blockchain Consultant at Web3
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHosain Al Ahmad is a Blockchain Consultant and seasoned Agile software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping high‑traffic, production-grade systems using Java, Groovy, Kotlin and JavaScript. He has led and delivered event-driven, microservice architectures at major UK organisations including Tesco, Sky and the Ministry of Justice, with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Kubernetes, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD and TDD. At Tesco he helped scale systems processing hundreds of real‑time customer events per second, and at loveholidays he built large-scale offer refresh pipelines crunching billions of combinations. Hosain also contributes to open-source mobile work—improving UI, reliability and automated tests for a widely used Quran Android app—showing a pragmatic blend of backend systems thinking and front-end care. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines technical leadership with a willingness to dive into code and modernise platforms through GitOps and infrastructure-as-code.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours at King's College London, U. of LondonHigh School, IT Practitioners, Distinction, High School, IT Practitioners, Distinction at Newham Sixth Form College
English, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
javas10
recyclerview10
android-recyclerview10
android10
java10
butterknife9
espresso8
rxjava7
testing7
rxjavafx7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quran/quran_android
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
a quran reading application for android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hosain primarily focused on enhancing the Android application's user interface and functionality. They refactored the translation manager to use RecyclerView, incorporating ButterKnife for view injection and cleaning up the activity's code. The user implemented swipe-to-refresh functionality and addressed a bug related to audio pausing when headphones are removed. They also introduced functional tests using Espresso, improving the application's testing infrastructure.
kotlinandroidquran
echocode-io/gcp-pubsub-emulator-ui
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 32 commits, 4 PRs in 14 days
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