Summary
Mudassir Ahmad is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient backend and cloud-first systems for education and fintech platforms. Based in Abuja, he leads engineering at Iconic Open University where his AWS architecture work—most notably integrating CloudFront with S3—improved performance by 40% while lowering operational costs. He’s practical across PHP and Python and has repeatedly delivered robust full-stack university and e-learning platforms featuring payments, notifications, ACLs, and logging that measurably improved enrollment and engagement. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and team leadership, he also has a track record of reducing technical debt and tightening deployment pipelines to cut bugs and speed delivery. Collected from roles at AFEX and multiple edtech projects, his experience reflects a focus on user-facing performance and pragmatic, scalable design.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, 2nd Class Upper Division, Bachelors, Computer Science, 2nd Class Upper Division at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto