Zara Ahmed
Full Stack Developer at Mindtrades
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZara Ahmed is a Full Stack Developer with 11 years of experience who blends Ruby on Rails craftsmanship with Python-driven data science to build scalable, data-first web applications. She has shipped production healthcare platforms that process wearable data in real time and led automation and scraping efforts that saved SumHealth tens of thousands per month by cutting GPU testing costs dramatically. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and ML tooling, she has rebuilt messy multi-sheet data pipelines into reliable AI-ready datasets using FastAPI, Google Cloud Run, spaCy, and sentence-transformer techniques. Zara pairs product-focused UI work (Figma → React/Rails) with pragmatic engineering—CI/CD, system design, and performance optimizations that improved runtime and processing accuracy by large margins. An entrepreneurial operator, she also runs a Shopify brand and has a track record of turning research-grade datasets into usable products, reflecting a rare mix of applied data science and full-stack delivery. Based in Toronto, she enjoys automating brittle workflows and making complex data accessible through elegant visualizations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma & High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma & High School Diploma at Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High SchoolMIT IDSS Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions, MIT IDSS Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComplete Machine Learning and Data Science Bootcamp, Complete Machine Learning and Data Science Bootcamp at Zero To Mastery AcademyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's UniversityComplete Web Development Bootcamp , Complete Web Development Bootcamp at The App BreweryProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zarskiahmed/website-CSS
Sep 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
zarskiahmed/hatchways-python-assignment
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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