Summary
Rana Ahmed is a technology leader and AI/ML architect with nine years of experience building scalable cloud-native platforms and engineering organizations across EdTech and FinTech. As CTO and VP of Engineering at Electus, she leads the Life Hub Infiniti AI initiative—an adaptive Earn & Learn ecosystem that blends personalization, fintech integrations, and blockchain-backed credentials to help students earn while they learn. She combines hands-on expertise in NLP, deep learning, recommender systems and RAG chatbots with pragmatic product ownership and compliance experience (FERPA, COPPA, GDPR) to deliver secure, high-availability systems on AWS/GCP and Kubernetes. Her background spans end-to-end delivery from PHP/JS web apps and ERPs to mobile (Flutter) and serverless architectures, and she has overseen large teams and multi-million PKR programs under tight budgets. Unusually for a CTO, she pairs doctoral-level research in IT with frontline university IT leadership, having scaled infrastructure for 100k daily users and led campus-wide digital transformations. Based in Punjab, Pakistan, Rana is passionate about leveraging AI and fintech to create measurable educational impact and verifiable career pathways for the next generation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, A, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, A at National College Of Business Administration & Economics
ICS, Computer Science, A, ICS, Computer Science, A at Superior College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, A at University of South Asia
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, A, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, A at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Matriculation, Science, A, Matriculation, Science, A at Al Huda Grammar School