Shams Ahmed
Senior Software Engineer (iOS) at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShams Ahmed is a Senior iOS Engineer with 13 years’ experience building apps, SDKs and developer tooling across startups and scale-ups, currently working on iOS at Amazon in London. He blends deep Swift and Objective-C expertise with systems thinking—having developed greenfield APM/crash-reporting SDKs using OpenTelemetry and driven API/architecture alignments to keep telemetry efficient on-device. Shams has led mobile teams and products from prototype to multi-country launches, shipping high-coverage libraries, CI/CD tooling and platform integrations that scaled customer adoption. A pragmatic engineer-manager hybrid, he typically splits time between hands-on coding and shaping product roadmaps, mentoring, and improving developer productivity. Outside work he co-organises the NSLondon meetup, bringing the UK Apple developer community together to share best practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 2:1 at City University LondonBTEC (National Diploma), IT Practitioner, BTEC (National Diploma), IT Practitioner at City and Islington College
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Github Skills (200)
dynamic-forms10
xlform10
realm10
in-app-purchase10
linter10
receipt-validation10
bitrise10
swiftui10
appstoreconnect10
ecosystem10
leancloud10
watchos10
doctor10
swift-framework10
swiftlint10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shams-ahmed/SAStepperControl
May 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
uistepperswiftiosincrement
bitrise-io/apm-ios-test-mortyUI
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
A very simple Rick & Morty app to demo GraphQL + SwiftUI
Contributions:48 commits, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
graphql-demomortyrickswiftios
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