Kemal Ahmed
Business Co-founder at Guidebolt
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKemal Ahmed is a multi-time software founder and engineer with 12 years of experience building web and platform products, currently co-founding Guidebolt from Toronto. He combines hands-on full-stack skills—React, Vue, AWS, serverless—and product leadership, having led teams, shipped pricing and AI-driven email features, and taught web security courses. A named inventor on a patent for synchronizing haptic cues with video, he blends experimental R&D with pragmatic delivery across startups and enterprises like AWS, Deloitte Digital, and Vidyard. Kemal contributes to open-source (notably improving a TypeScript-enabled vuex persistence plugin) and routinely modernizes legacy monorepos and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable from low-level embedded engineering to LLM-driven customer workflows, he also mentors teams and designs systems with accessibility, testing, and deployability in mind.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering (Embedded Systems), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering (Embedded Systems) at McMaster UniversityHigh School Diploma Computer Engineering, High School Diploma Computer Engineering at St. Francis Xavier Secondary SchoolData Analytics and AI, Data Analytics and AI at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
American Sign Language, French, Urdu, English
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Github Skills (15)
localstorage10
typescript10
typescripts10
vuex10
vue10
typescript-types10
vue-jsx10
javascript9
expo6
tornado6
jestjs6
react-native6
python6
react6
testing5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
championswimmer/vuex-persist
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
A Vuex plugin to persist the store. (Fully Typescript enabled)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kemal primarily focused on refining the storage and persistence functionality of the Vuex plugin. Their contributions involved fixing a bug related to local storage within the `mounted` lifecycle hook and refactoring the storage setup logic. Furthermore, the user addressed linting issues and simplified package configurations. These changes aimed to improve the plugin's reliability and ease of use within Vue.js applications.
vuevuexpersistvuex-plugintypescript
goatandsheep/configuration-chain
Feb 2021 - Mar 2024
Handle configuration once and for all
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 28 PRs in 3 years 1 month
configurationchainconfigconfig-chainhandle
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