Sulthan Ahmed
Principal Software Developer at Independent
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSulthan Ahmed is a Principal Software Developer based in London with 11 years of engineering experience and 8 years as a hands-on developer delivering cloud-native solutions. He specializes in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and CI/CD (Drone, Jenkins), and builds resilient Node.js platforms with strong test discipline (TDD, BDD, Mocha) and automated browser testing (Puppeteer, Cypress). At the UK Home Office he progressed from Senior to Principal, driving architecture and team-level delivery while transforming waterfall teams into effective Agile/Kanban/Scrum units. He pairs deep infrastructure and automation expertise with practical product instincts, enabling faster, safer releases in regulated environments. Outside engineering he is a vocal artist and host of The Muslim Nasheed Show, bringing creative leadership and public-facing communication skills into his technical work. This blend of technical depth, delivery leadership, and creative outreach makes him effective at bridging engineering, operations, and stakeholder engagement.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
City University London
Github Skills (118)
testing10
acceptance-testing10
rights10
webdriver10
firefox10
codeceptjs10
bdd10
nightmare10
selenium-webdriver10
browserstack10
nodejs10
protractor10
webdriverio10
selenium10
chrome-extension10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sulthan-ahmed/hof
Oct 2017 - Apr 2024
Home Office Forms (DSP)
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 21 branches in 6 years 7 months
dsphome-office
UKHomeOfficeForms/hof-theme-govuk
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 19 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 3 months
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