Irfanuddin Ahmed
Digital Technical Leader at Rockwell Automation
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolIrfanuddin Ahmed is a Digital Technical Leader with 8 years of experience architecting Industrial IoT and DataOps platforms that bridge shopfloor systems with generative AI to enable Industry 4.0/5.0 transformations. Based in Abu Dhabi, he leads regional digital transformation efforts at Rockwell Automation while driving R&D, product design, security and performance standards across microservices and polyglot persistence stacks. He has hands-on backend experience—contributing to notable open-source projects like Uvicorn by improving async tasking, WebSocket headers and test coverage—and champions FastAPI adoption across teams. A former researcher and mentor, he blends academic rigor (MSc in Computer Systems Engineering) with practical prototyping, having published IEEE/Springer work and mentored over 150 employees. Colleagues describe him as an adventurist in code and ideas who turns complex industrial blind spots into deployable, data-driven solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Systems Engineering at Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaNanodegree Machine Learning Foundations, Nanodegree Machine Learning Foundations at UdacityBachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communication engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communication engineering at BSA Crescent Institute of Science and TechnologyHigh School Science Major: Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science, High School Science Major: Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science at Al Wurood International School
English, Tamil, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu
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Github Skills (16)
pytest10
asgi10
python10
asyncio10
client-websocket9
websocket-client9
websocket9
websockets-client9
visual-studio-code9
http9
http-server8
pandas6
pydantic6
fastapi6
forloop6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
encode/uvicorn
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 8 commits, 25 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Irfanuddin contributed to the Uvicorn ASGI web server by implementing enhancements and addressing existing issues. They refactored the code to utilize `asyncio.create_task`, added default headers to WebSocket implementations, and introduced testing scenarios for the `--uds` flag. Furthermore, they improved logging test coverage and added a test case for handling a port value of zero, indicating a focus on improving functionality and test coverage.
asgipythonweb-serverasyncioserver
iudeen/ASGIJWTSignatureValidatorMiddleware
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 15 reviews, 48 commits in 3 months
middlewarejwtfastapi
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