Kashan Ahmed
About Kashan Ahmed
Kashan Ahmed is a Senior Back End Software Engineer with extensive experience in Docker, Portainer, and Airflow. He has worked in various roles across multiple countries, focusing on microservices, serverless architectures, and DevOps practices.
Work at Confidential
Kashan Ahmed has been employed as a Senior Back-End Software Engineer at Confidential since 2023. He works remotely from Dallas, Texas, United States. In this role, he applies his expertise in back-end development and contributes to various projects, leveraging his skills in managing microservices and serverless architectures.
Previous Employment Experience
Before joining Confidential, Kashan Ahmed held several positions in the software engineering field. He worked at Concypt as a Software Engineer for 11 months in Lahore, Pakistan. He then served as a Senior Backend Developer at Regbits from 2021 to 2023 in Doha, Qatar. Additionally, he was a Senior Elixir Developer at the Elixir Community of Pakistan during the same period. His experience also includes working as a Senior Backend Engineer at MyQampus in London and as an Open Source Developer at GitHub.
Education and Expertise
Kashan Ahmed earned a Master of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, from 2021 to 2023. He also completed a CS106A Code in Place course at Stanford University in 2020. Earlier, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from Allama Iqbal Open University from 2016 to 2020. His educational background supports his proficiency in software development and cloud-based infrastructure management.
Technical Skills and Projects
Kashan Ahmed possesses extensive technical skills, including experience with Docker, Portainer, and Airflow. He has developed scalable, concurrent, and fault-tolerant products using technologies such as Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Oban. He has also built a SaaS-based product from scratch, optimizing it for global data handling. His strong interest in DevOps practices includes a focus on CI/CD pipelines.