Waseem Ahmad
Lead Software Engineer at Figment
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolWaseem Ahmad is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications and scalable APIs, currently leading engineering at Figment after shaping monetization and experimentation systems at Shopify. He is fluent across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React), and serverless architectures, and has applied Python for over two years in data science and ML with scikit-learn and PyTorch. Waseem combines hands-on development with systems administration—migrating and operating services on AWS, GCP/Firebase, and managing complex background processing and media pipelines. He has a track record of shipping privacy-focused products (SafeShepherd) and real-time tooling (WebRTC-based survey/communication) while coaching teams to adopt Git, CI, and better development workflows. Holding an MS in Data Science from the University of Bath, he blends practical engineering with analytic rigor and a knack for automating repetitive operational tasks.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at University of BathBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
8,292reputation
764kreached
53answers
38questions
rspec
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (62)
kubernetes10
docker10
markdown10
go10
html10
kubernetes-monitoring9
mesos9
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
rspec9
chaos9
scheduling9
ruby-on-rails9
twitter-client8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
waseem/vim
Aug 2011 - Nov 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes in 8 years 3 months
waseem/kubernetes
May 2017 - Jul 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 3 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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