Kamran Ahmed

CTO

London, United Kingdom12 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for a top open-source platform.
Grew GitHub stars from 150K to 300K+.
Recognized as a GitHub Star for community contributions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with a strong focus on open-source and developer education.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct StrategySoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementSolution ArchitectureDevOpsGitHubAI-powered tutorUser subscriptionsSponsorshipsAffiliate coursesCRMRefactoringCollaborationB2B commerce platformCI/CD practicesQuality processes

About

I’m an experienced engineering leader and a developer with a demonstrated history of working on large-scale enterprise solutions. Additionally, I have a strong penchant for building and managing high-functioning development teams using my strong problem-solving and people skills. Over my 10+ years of experience, I have heavily focused my attention on full-stack development, fostering agile practices, patterns of enterprise application architecture, managing complexity in the systems, delivering solutions that are future-proof, maintainable, and easily scalable, building and growing teams and mentoring the developers. I'm a quick learner with a strong interest in emerging technologies and exceptional analytical/problem-solving skills. Moreover, I try to make a positive impact and lift the tech community globally with my open-source work and educational material. I am quite active on GitHub, where I have accumulated around 350k+ stars on my projects, and one of my projects is among the top ten most starred projects on GitHub. I am a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and also GitHub recently recognized my OpenSource and community contributions and selected me as a "GitHub Star". Also, I love teaching and educating others; I recently started my YouTube channel, which has around 200k+ subscribers.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Insight media group

2 roles

Group Head of Product and Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

Leading product and engineering across Insight Media Group's developer and data science properties: Towards Data Science, The New Stack, and roadmap.sh - collectively used by millions of users.
Driving platform modernisation across the portfolio: migrating legacy WordPress infrastructure to a modern stack with infrastructure as code and automated workflows
Consolidating tooling and reducing reliance on external vendors to cut operational costs.
Building improved editorial workflows to increase author productivity and content velocity
Transforming content-focused properties into product-led platforms

Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementSolution ArchitectureDevOpsEngineering ManagementProduct Strategy

Head of Product and Engineering (roadmap.sh)

Jun 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

Joined following acquisition to lead product strategy, engineering, and growth for one of the largest open-source developer education platforms - scaling it from a content site into a full product with multiple revenue streams.
Scaled the platform to 3M+ registered users and 7M+ monthly visits
Grew GitHub stars from 150K to 300K+, making it the 6th most-starred project on GitHub
Drove the product strategy, launching an AI-powered tutor and intelligent features that increased session duration, engagement, and revenue
Transformed a traffic-focused property into a sustainable business. Identified and launched multiple revenue streams: user subscriptions, sponsorships, affiliate courses, advertising, and a self-authored course - achieving 6-figure annual revenue within 12 months.
Launched the roadmap editor, now with 300K+ user-created roadmaps.
Introduced a Teams product, onboarding 10K+ teams
Built reporting infrastructure and a back-office application to streamline operations and enable data-driven decision-making
Led 1,000+ open-source contributors and a distributed contractor team, establishing scalable workflows for code and content
Modernised engineering practices: infrastructure as code, automated CI/CD, and coding standards - reducing deployment friction and improving platform reliability

GitHubAI-powered tutorUser subscriptionsSponsorshipsAffiliate coursesProduct Strategy+1

Zalando se

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Berlin, Germany

Helped migrate the CRM from Leanplum to Braze having +40m users data
Refactored CRM pipelines to reduce the indexing times from 40 minutes to 1 minute
Prepared the architectural migration plan for legacy "Zalon" product
Collaborated with different teams to get the buy-in for the new architecture
Refactor and implement features to support existing Zalon product
Worked closely with the product teams on refinements and feasibility analysis
Code reviews, mentoring, hiring, planning and so on.

CRMRefactoringCollaborationSoftware Engineering

Tradeling.com

Engineering Manager

Dec 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Helped build and launch the B2B commerce platform within 3 months
Helped grow the tech team from 2 developers to +50 developers within 1.5 years.
Helped achieve +1 million products, +100k buyers, +10k sellers, and millions in revenue
Lead 3 different teams, "Buyer Center", "Seller Center", and "Catalog PIM" with 13 developers
Proposed and led several product initiatives, including "negotiated orders", and "RFQs"
"Negotiated Orders" feature helped increase the conversion rate by 100x.
"RFQs" feature reduced the dormant accounts by 5x
Helped implement the CI/CD practices, feature flags, reducing the deployment blockers
Introduced processes for quality (automation, metrics, dashboards, etc.) and team ownership.
Introduced better development processes (RFCs, cross-teams, etc.), helping reduce the silos.
Fostered the documentation culture, introduced engineering guide, and better onboarding plans
Mentored and grew 2 developers of my team who ended up taking the lead positions
Helped skill up the junior team members by introducing mob/pair programming sessions
Keywords:
Node.js, React.js, TypeScript, Redux, Jest, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, SOA, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, GitHub, DevOps, Docker, Hiring, Performance Management, Code Reviews, Mentoring, Leadership

B2B commerce platformCI/CD practicesQuality processesEngineering Management

Al tayer group

Software Engineering Lead

May 2019 – Dec 2019 · 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Developed vendor onboarding functionality, reducing the lead time from 48 hours to 1 hour
Developed a PIM tool to increase vendor productivity by tenfold and reduce error rates to 0.
Migrated the checkout functionality out of Magento, reducing the load times from seconds to milliseconds
Implemented returns and refund functionality used by customers and fullfillment teams.

Vendor onboardingPIM toolCheckout functionalitySoftware Engineering

Roadmap.sh

Creator & Solo Founder

Mar 2017 – Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

[Acquired by Insight Partners in June 2022]
Started roadmap.sh as a side project - three images in a GitHub repository that grew into one of the most influential open-source resources in the developer community. Evolved the project through multiple iterations: from static images to a static website to a fully interactive platform.
By acquisition in June 2022: roadmap.sh had 150K+ monthly active users, 2M+ monthly pageviews, 110K newsletter subscribers, 100K+ YouTube subscribers, and 150K+ GitHub stars - achieved solo, with zero spend on design, marketing, or infrastructure.

Seera group

2 roles

Software Engineering Lead

Promoted

Nov 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Helped build and launch the flights and hotels booking platform as a pre-launch hire
Saw the company grow from 20 people to 1000 people and tech team from 5 to 100+
Grew the platform from 0 to +40k flight and hotel orders per day
Developed some of the core services of the platform including:
Accounts service, Payment gateway, Configuration, CRM, Loyalty service, and Fraud service.
Led the development of several mission-critical projects as an architect lead, including:
Back-office application used by more than 250 offline travel agent offices
Revamped the order management service to make it more scalable
Led the developer productivity team of 3, where we built several internal tools to improve DX
Conducted several internal training sessions to mentor and share the intra-team learnings.
Moved to our Berlin office to build a team and support the mobile and PWA development
Hiring, code reviews, O3 meetings, interviews, planning, etc.

Flight and hotel booking platformCore services developmentSoftware Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Oct 2016 · 11 mos

Strategic systems international

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Worked with several clients on various projects in this service-based company. Some of my contributions include rebuilding a legacy healthcare application (hbinsights.com) to make it scalable and easier to maintain. Development of an ed-tech platform's (academicapproach.com) test preparation and reporting modules.

Digitalsofts private limited

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Faisalabad, Pakistan

Delivered solutions in the Business Management and ERP domain. I built the web version of the company's core product called “Digital Manager” which was a business management solution with modules including accounts, production, payroll, inventory, point of sale, and CRM.

Healthcare applicationEd-tech platformSoftware Engineering