Omair Ahmed
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOmair Ahmed is a Senior Software Developer with over a decade of experience building backend systems and data pipelines, currently shipping production software at Shopify in Old Toronto. He has a strong track record in data engineering, API development, and productionizing machine learning models—work that at Deloitte contributed to a $5M annual efficiency improvement through automated case processing. Comfortable across Python, Django/Flask, Docker/Kubernetes and queued architectures, he has led backend teams and performance-tuned data-intensive systems on SAP HANA and AWS. Omair blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic system design, turning ML prototypes into scalable services and end-to-end DAG pipelines. His background includes a master’s in IT from IIIT Hyderabad and early SAP HANA analytics experience, giving him both enterprise-grade rigor and startup-style delivery velocity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Deccan College of Engineering and TechnologyMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanSt. George's Grammar School, Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Urdu
Github Skills (13)
kotlin8
android8
hotel-booking8
shopify7
polaris7
typescript7
rails6
electron6
spree6
github6
ruby5
git5
github-desktop2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ofa1/inkscape-to-pdf
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ofa1/dotfiles
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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