Syed Ahmad
Senior Software Engineer at RBCx
British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSyed Ahmad is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across Rust, Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript while operating from British Columbia. He combines deep backend engineering — re-architecting long-running jobs into parallel resumable batches and creating Rust core libraries used across web and mobile — with pragmatic product focus, having implemented Stripe subscriptions and Okta-based compliance flows. Syed has a track record of improving throughput and observability (cutting claim processing from 6 hours to 15 minutes and reducing MTTD from 3 hours to 40 minutes) and optimizing scarce resources like API quotas through careful caching and session reuse. He mentors teams, reduces onboarding friction via automation and docs, and brings a researcher’s rigor from his UBC MSc work on large-scale software evolution and predictive models. Notably, he builds custom testing tools and mock libraries to tame unreliable external APIs, enabling resilient integrations where staging environments are limited.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer science and engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer science and engineering at North South UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaA level Science, A level Science at Sunnydale
English, Bengali, Hindi
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Github Skills (42)
backport10
git-history10
abstract-syntax-tree9
dedicated9
parser9
code-generator8
datepicker8
react8
code-generation8
date-fns8
java8
javascript8
javadoc8
parsing7
parser-generator7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ishtiaque05/dotfiles
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:36 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
ishtiaque05/recommender-sys-tut
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 14 PRs, 25 pushes in 25 days
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