Ijaz Ahmad
Principal Engineer at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolIjaz Ahmad is a Principal Engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade, full‑stack systems for federal and public-sector clients. He combines deep .NET/C# and OpenText ECM expertise with cloud-native architecture on Azure and AWS, implementing IaC (ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation), CI/CD, and secure GenAI/RAG solutions. At NIAID he leads mission‑critical integrations—building Azure-native AI services with Azure OpenAI, embeddings and model orchestration—while also designing cross-cloud serverless notification systems using SNS/Lambda. A pragmatic technical leader, he modernizes legacy platforms into observable, high-performance services and mentors cross-functional teams through complex migrations. His background in enterprise content, records management, and e-signature integrations (OpenText e-Sign, DocuSign) gives him a strong edge in regulated environments. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends hands-on engineering with strategic vision to turn advanced AI and cloud patterns into reliable, auditable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, Master of Science - MS, COMPUTER SCIENCE at Iowa State UniversityBS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at International Islamic University, IslamabadAdvance database design and development training, Computer Software, Advance database design and development training, Computer Software at NIE Government Institute
Github Skills (36)
api9
gephi8
graphical-user-interface8
imgui8
game-engine7
kinect7
graph7
user-interface7
game-development7
cpp7
xbox6
java6
visualization6
cross-platform6
openvr6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
project-spinoza/gephi-swiss-army-knife
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:116 commits, 100 pushes in 4 months
kowalski100/STM32F4-HAL-Examples
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:81 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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