Najim Ahmed
Head Of Software Engineering at Skill Quotient
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Top SchoolNajim Ahmed is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and leading multi-team delivery across Oil & Gas, GLCs, Sustainability, E‑commerce, Media, and Insurance. As Head of Software Engineering he combines hands-on system design (Java/Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Spark/Databricks) with operational rigor—driving CI/CD, Kubernetes/GitOps, observability, and DevSecOps to create predictable, resilient platforms. He has a track record of shrinking latencies and error rates at scale (e.g., p95 <150ms across 40+ APIs for 40,000+ users) and has retooled pipelines and architectures to restore SLO compliance. Najim also leads enterprise GenAI adoption, moving pilots to governed, production-grade systems that boost developer productivity and decision-making. Known for building from within the system, he balances technical mentorship, hiring and KPIs to scale both platforms and teams while owning pre-sales solutioning and delivery commitments. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he blends deep backend and data engineering expertise with a strong product-alignment mindset.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Dhaka CollegeSSC, SSC at Dhanmondi Govt. Boys' High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Jahangirnagar University
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
file-browser8
java7
file-upload7
angularjs7
spring-boot7
file-explorer7
spring7
angular6
file-manager6
access-token6
bearer-token6
vault6
authorization6
angular-resource6
responsive6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mandatorySuicide/Learning
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
mandatorySuicide/Algorithm
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:336 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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