Zakariya Ahmed
Software Engineer at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZakariya Ahmed is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native and microservice systems, currently contributing at Riot Games after a multi-year consulting career at Slalom. He combines Java Spring-based backends, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Oracle/DynamoDB expertise with AWS serverless components and CI/CD tooling to solve complex integration and scalability challenges. On the front end he enjoys crafting interfaces with VueJS and AngularJS, bringing a product-minded eye from client-facing consulting work. A UT Dallas biology graduate with a computer science minor, he brings atypical cross-disciplinary curiosity—organizing campus hackathons and navigating university operations—which informs a pragmatic, people-first approach to technical delivery.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, B.A. Biology with Computer Science Minor, 3.84, Bachelor’s Degree, B.A. Biology with Computer Science Minor, 3.84 at The University of Texas at Dallas
English, Urdu
Github Skills (26)
uniswap10
ethereum10
blockchain10
firefox8
plug8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
browser-extension7
browser6
brave6
opera6
testing5
swap5
metamask4
dialogflow4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zsahmed/zakariya-portfolio
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches in 18 days
zsahmed/cclulac
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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