Mohammad Akhtar
Senior Software Developer at Ceridian
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMohammad Akhtar is a Senior Software Developer with 8 years of experience building high-scale, production-grade systems across payroll, PPM, and internal tools, currently driving distributed Smart Pay and predictive payroll services at Ceridian. He combines strong academic foundations—a BASc in Computer Science from U of Toronto and an MS in Computer Vision and Scalable Computation from Western—with hands-on expertise in C#, Python, CUDA, MongoDB, T-SQL, and cloud-native CI/CD on Azure/Kubernetes. At Ceridian he led microservice and GraphQL migrations, delivered GPU-accelerated payroll computation that cut costs by 30%, and built real-time predictive services serving millions with a 90% system-load reduction. As a former co-founder and consultant, he automated testing and large-scale data migrations and has practical experience shipping end-to-end web apps and tooling at AMD. He regularly blends engineering rigor with design-minded problem solving informed by teaching experience in algorithms and systems programming. Notably, he pairs ML-driven productization with production reliability—turning research-grade models into scalable, low-latency services used by tens of millions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Rick Hansen Secondary SchoolMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Western UniversityHigh School O-Levels, High School O-Levels at The Citty SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Urdu, Punjabi
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Github Skills (20)
testing7
piano5
adversarial-attacks4
simulation4
webapp4
web-application4
music3
music-streaming3
restful-api2
nodejs2
self-driving-car2
websocket1
mlp1
multiplayer1
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UTHT/pod1-software-core
Sep 2020 - May 2022
The core software that operates our pod #1. This includes controls, communications, testing suites, control panel, etc.
Contributions:21 reviews, 68 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 8 months
testing
MJavaadAkhtar/MJavaadAkhtar.github.io
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:56 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
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