Zahid Ahmed
Lead Engineer at CDP
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZahid Ahmed is a Lead Engineer based in London with eight years of experience building AI-driven and blockchain-enabled products across startups and enterprise settings. He has held technical leadership roles—including CTO positions—and currently leads engineering at CDP after a recent tenure as Lead Software Engineer at Webacy. His background blends applied machine learning and computer vision (MSc, University of Surrey) with hands-on experience in Web3, NFTs, and play-to-earn ecosystems, enabling him to translate research concepts into production systems. Prior work at Lockheed Martin focused on AI and modeling & simulation, giving him depth in rigorous engineering and simulation-heavy architectures. Zahid is comfortable founding and scaling teams (co-founder of Takweya) while shipping pragmatic cloud-native solutions from prototype to market. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who bridges cutting-edge research and product-focused delivery.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at Abu Dhabi UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Vision , Robotics and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Computer Vision , Robotics and Machine Learning at University of Surrey
English, Arabic, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
data-feed8
flutter-plugin8
player7
request-response7
dart6
admob6
mongodb6
database6
flutter6
keras6
gridview6
lazy-loading6
android6
blockchain6
evm6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zadahmed/hangulcharacterrecognition
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
zadahmed/zadahmed
Oct 2022 - Aug 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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