Imdad Ahad
Member Of Technical Staff - Software Engineer at YouTube
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolImdad Ahad is a seasoned software engineer and two-time technical co-founder with a decade of experience taking products from 0→1 and scaling them to millions of users and clips. He architected LiveLink AI’s cost-optimised Gen-AI video-editing platform that produced over 3M edited clips and cut cloud costs by ~90%, and earlier grew Scoodle to 100k users with investment from Google and a Twitter co-founder. Comfortable across the full stack, he frequently pairs Next.js/TypeScript front ends with Python/Flask backends and has deep hands-on experience with AWS serverless, EKS/Kubernetes, observability stacks, and Gen-AI tooling like SageMaker and Bedrock. He helped build GOV.UK Notify as one of its earliest engineers, contributing to a platform that now delivers billions of messages with sub-10s delivery, and has applied security and systems engineering across defence and energy clients. Beyond product work, Imdad is an influential educator (@imdadcodes) with 10M+ views and Coursera course authorship, combining community reach with practical production experience. Based in London, he blends startup grit, cost-conscious cloud architecture, and public-facing teaching to turn complex ML and video pipelines into reliable, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at King's College London
English, Bengali
Github Skills (200)
python10
whenever10
flask-restful10
visual-studio10
flask10
editor10
api10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
marshmallow10
paypal9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
imdadahad/quicko
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Chrome extension to quickly search and navigate to a bookmark
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
chrome-extensionnavigatebookmarkchrome
imdadahad/automate-youtube-to-mp3-with-python
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 reviews, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
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