Mohammad Ahmad
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMohammad Ahmad is a Software Development Engineer II with eight years of experience building large-scale distributed systems for AI/ML and real-time analytics at AWS. He played key roles in launching real-time chat and conversational analytics services that were showcased at AWS re:Invent, demonstrating strength in shipping production-grade, customer-facing systems. A UIUC MCS graduate, he blends backend distributed systems expertise with practical frontend and DevOps experience from earlier roles, including containerization, migration, and observability integrations. Mohammad’s background includes applied ML research—developing a 90%+ accurate Urdu OCR model—and hands-on product work across cloud services and enterprise web apps. Based in Seattle, he balances engineering rigor with a pragmatic aversion to legacy code, preferring modern, testable architectures that scale.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Stackoverflow
2,977reputation
171kreached
124answers
27questions
Github Skills (36)
ajax10
classification10
chatroom9
libgit29
nlp8
version-control8
mongodb8
dotnet8
dotnet-core8
natural-language-processing8
websocket8
machine-learning8
nodejs8
socket-io8
git7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ahmedhammad97/Chat-Room-Service
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Service based on Socket.io, that provides encrypted chat rooms for users, who can either create, or join using a unique code.
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years
chatroomajaxchat-roommongodbnodejs
ahmedhammad97/Risk-Game
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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