Yasir Ahmad
Lead Software Engineer at Isla Health
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYasir Ahmad is a Lead Software Engineer based in Dundee with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering mobile (iOS and cross-platform) and backend systems in Node.js and Java. He currently architects a scalable healthcare platform at Isla Health, guiding cloud infrastructure, backend services, and an engineering team to solve real-world patient caseload challenges. Previously he improved customer-facing and critical backend systems at Kaluza and helped build community-focused product features at Flick, combining product empathy with technical rigor. As a founding engineer and lead iOS developer at Yavi, he brings deep hands-on mobile expertise alongside server-side architecture skills. He is comfortable leading legacy migrations and establishing reliability and performance best practices in fast-paced startups. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs cross-stack fluency with a focus on delivery and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Applied Computing, BSc Applied Computing at University of DundeeMorgan Academy
Stackoverflow
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firebase
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google-cloud-functions
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Github Skills (54)
caching10
firebase-authentication10
walkthrough10
image10
crashlytics10
authentication10
sdwebimage10
push-notifications10
sdk10
image-processor10
firebase-storage10
firestore10
swift10
firebase-database10
firebase-functions10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yahmad/yahmad.github.io
Sep 2016 - May 2020
Personal website
Contributions:63 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
yahmad/circleci-orbs
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
CircleCI Orbs
Contributions:6 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
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