Irfan Ahmad
Founder at MagnitionIO
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolIrfan Ahmad is a seasoned Silicon Valley founder and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building high-performance systems and startups focused on storage, caching, and data-path optimization. As founder of MagnitionIO he commercialized award-winning, patented real-time cache optimization technology that delivers multi-fold efficiency gains and latency improvements for CDNs, storage and database vendors. He also founded Halo Radius to deliver scalable systems architecture and ML-enabled data services, and previously led product and engineering at CloudPhysics after a decade driving VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduling portfolio. A longtime investor and advisor through roles with DCVC and multiple startups, he blends hands-on systems engineering with GTM and content strategy as Executive Chairman of GTM Delta. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained in Math & CS at the University of Waterloo, he’s known for turning deep systems expertise into repeatable, market-ready products that embed into infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Barton SecondaryBachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (179)
window-manager10
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scala-native9
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react-native-web9
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relay-modern9
relay9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
virtualirfan/magnolify
Apr 2020 - Mar 2023
A collection of Magnolia add-on modules
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
magnoliaadd-on
virtualirfan/relay
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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