Ahmad Hassan

Software Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands11 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience in scalable web applications.
Expert in Ruby on Rails and AWS technologies.
Led engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech backend engineer with expertise in scalable applications and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ruby On RailsDevopsNode.jsAws

Other Skills

AJAXAgile Project ManagementAgile Web DevelopmentAmazon EC2Amazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache KafkaCI/CDCSSCakePHPChefCommunicationConfiguration ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

About

Virtuosos. I am a passionate engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications. I specialize in designing clean, maintainable code and have worked extensively with modern web technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, and AWS. I thrive in fast-paced startup environments, where I can contribute to building innovative products from scratch. 💡 Key Skills: • Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Go (Golang) RESTful APIs, GraphQL • JavaScript (Nodejs, React.js), HTML/CSS • PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis • AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes • Test-Driven Development (TDD), RSpec, Capybara I’m always looking to collaborate on exciting projects and solve challenging problems. Let’s connect!

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs

Current Experience

Zensports (a keystar brand)

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Remote · Remote

ZenSports is a mobile sports betting app that offers more sports betting and payment solutions for consumers than any other product. With ZenSports, customers can choose to bet against the house or create their own bets with their own odds and terms (peer-to-peer). Peer-to-peer bets can be shared with friends or anonymously via the app’s mobile two-sided marketplace, all without the need for a bookmaker and all right from their phone. ZenSports also offers the ability to wager in fiat or cryptocurrencies.
I lead the engineering vision, recruit our amazing team members.
ZenSports received its sports betting license and launched in Tennessee in June 2023.
Tennessee consistently ranks in the top 10 out of 37 states with legalized sports betting. Prior to its acquisition by KeyStar Corp, ZenSports received its sports betting license in the state of Nevada in August 2021.
ZenSports was acquired by KeyStar Corp (OTC: KEYR) in August 2022.

DevOpsRubyAgile Project ManagementVMLeadershipAws+13

Dazn

Sr. Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

Developed and optimized a highly scalable, resilience payments application serving 1M+ users, reducing response time by 40% through query optimization and caching strategies.
Developed & architected 3rd party payments integrations.
Developed Serverless and containerized applications
Designed RESTful APIs, increasing integration efficiency.
Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with Docker & AWS, reducing deployment time by 50%.
Improved test coverage from 20% to 80%.

Express.jsNode.jsAwsTeamworkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Payment Gateways+2

Involvio

Lead Engineer

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

Involvio is the leading mobile student engagement platform helping college and university administrators assess and increase student involvement, unify access to campus resources, and improve student success from orientation through graduation.
At Involvio, I help to set development standards and engineering best practices. I have developed and optimized a highly scalable application serving 1M+ users reducing response time by 40% through query optimization and caching strategies.
We have multiple applications and I am responsible for-
Designed RESTful APIs, increasing integration efficiency.
Implemented a CI/CD pipeline on GithubActions
Developed & architected 3rd party integrations.
Reviewing code contributions from the teammates.
Architecting New Feature or Change
Development Council For New Product Design
Writing Codes for new feature design and development.
Improved test coverage from 10% to 70%.
Migrated data from MongoDB to Postgres

RubyAwsTeamworkAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLRuby on Rails+2

Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company

Ruby Developer (Contractor)

Sep 2016 – Jul 2017 · 10 mos · India

RackSpace is a cloud service company in the U.S.A which provides managed services across applications, data, security, and infrastructure on the world’s leading public and private cloud platforms enables us to provide unbiased expertise.
I was part of the service management team working with their internal application and did the coding & Testing for RackSpace.

Ola (ani technologies pvt ltd)

Software Developement Engineer II

Dec 2014 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Ola integrates city transportation for customers and driver-partners onto a mobile technology platform ensuring convenient, transparent, and quick service fulfilment. Ola is focused on leveraging the best of technology and building innovative solutions ground-up, that are relevant at the global scale.
At Ola, I worked as a backend engineer. I was responsible for:-
Designing and developing backend application in an agile environment utilizing a test-driven development approach
Requirement gathering, breaking the tasks and distributing in the team.
Developed & architected customer support application.

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