Saad Ahmed
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSaad Ahmed is a pragmatic software engineer and CS undergraduate from Lahore with six years of hands-on experience building and maintaining product-grade systems at startups. He gravitates toward databases, distributed systems, kernels, and network stacks, and brings a practical business-aware perspective from making design decisions in real-world product contexts. A Unix enthusiast and hobbyist tinkerer, he has also contributed to the popular fastai library, improving tensor utilities and notebook integration—showing comfort across ML tooling and low-level system work. As a former student club co-lead and teaching assistant, he combines mentorship and teaching experience with shipping software, and he consistently bridges academic concepts with production engineering.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.59/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.59/4.0 at Information Technology University
Github Skills (8)
notebook10
pytorch10
fastai10
machine-learning10
deeplearning-ai10
deep-learning10
python10
numpy9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fastai/fastai
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The fastai deep learning library
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Saad primarily contributed to the fastai deep learning library by addressing issues and adding new features related to tensor manipulation and notebook integration. They refactored the `_array2tensor()` function to support keyword arguments, enhancing its flexibility. Additionally, they addressed a UTF-8 encoding issue in the README.md file. The user also updated and reverted notebook-related code changes, showcasing active involvement in maintaining the library's functionality.
pytorchpythondeep-learninggpumachine-learning
Coderatic/coderatic-server
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
A competitive programming website that has it's own judge. Inspired by codeforces, google kickstart and later on, lightOJ
Contributions:11 PRs, 73 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.