Samir Ahmed
Senior Software Engineer at Block
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Ahmed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, specializing in backend and machine learning platforms. Currently at Block, he designs high-throughput ML infrastructure to detect fraud at scale, drawing on prior roles that shipped production ML microservices and data tooling at Culture Amp and a multi-tenant e-commerce SaaS as a startup team lead. A former university lecturer and competitive programmer with international achievements, he blends theoretical CS rigor with practical engineering to simplify complex architectures and optimize performance. Comfortable across the full stack, he enjoys operating at the intersection of theory and industry to turn algorithmic insights into robust, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)GCE A Levels, GCE A Levels at MastermindMaster’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at Monash University
Bengali, English
Github Skills (42)
django10
django-rest10
api10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
redis9
python9
rest-framework9
web-token9
jwt9
static-site9
rest-api9
database8
resource-sharing8
disk8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
blaklites/fb
Aug 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
apipythonsdkfacebookgraph
blaklites/blaklites.github.io
Feb 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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