Aryan Ahmed

Software Engineer

Newport, Wales, United Kingdom6 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in backend development and infrastructure management.
Proficient in Kubernetes and cloud technologies.
Strong experience in optimizing complex systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesGo (programming Language)MysqlCloud InfrastructureGolangPhpAutomationTest AutomationCi/cdAwsLaravelRest Apis

Other Skills

Helm (Software)dockerRustcaddyRedisGitHubHdfsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Apache KafkaMicroservicesTerraformPostgreSQLReact.jsNginxPython (Programming Language)

About

I'm a software engineer with a focus on the backend, automation, and infrastructure. And a keen spirit for writing code for humans & machines. With several years of professional experience, I've worked on a handful number of beautiful software with amazing technologies and team members across Europe, Asia, and North America. My primary tech stack includes PHP, Go, Laravel, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, and AWS. But I like to work with different technologies based on necessity. I like to explore tech and therefore I've worked with many other technologies including but not limited to Python, Rust, Kafka, GCP, gRPC, WebSockets, etc. I enjoy working with strictly typed languages and therefore Rust has become my favourite language to work with. But none less, I still love technology in general. Also, I enjoy architecting, everything from code to infrastructure. I like JavaScript when it doesn't exist in the project. This is my coding sandbox, where I tryout random tech: https://github.com/thearyanahmed/libsandbox I sometimes write on medium https://thearyanahmed.com/

Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Digitalocean

2 roles

Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

Software Engineer - App Platform

Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

My role sits at the intersection of reliability and product — keeping the platform healthy, extending what it can do, and making sure the complexity stays invisible to the people building on top of it.
Most of my feature work has been end-to-end — RFC through to public API, CLI, Terraform provider, documentation, and production monitoring.
Research and benchmarking of gVisor and Kata Containers for sandboxed runtime evaluation, including a deep investigation into NFS integration with gVisor — testing compatibility, identifying limitations, and producing findings that shaped the team's direction.
Contributed to Edge Controls — a configurable Cloudflare integration layer giving customers control over caching, DDoS protection, bot scoring, and SSE streaming, from design through Public Preview to GA. Also built exec-into-specific-instance across the full API and CLI surface, and fixed container registry selection bugs that could cause apps to silently deploy from the wrong source.
Handled a significant volume of SLO violations and on-call incidents — investigating root causes, writing postmortems, and closing the loop. The Trusted Sources surface — which governs app-to-database connectivity — required careful debugging across reconcilers and rollout sequencing.
Query optimisation across critical API paths on a deployments table with tens of millions of rows — reducing I/O, eliminating correlated subqueries, fixing a timestamp drift bug that widened scan windows. The improvements ranged from 51x to 291x faster, measured against production data.
Contributed features and fixes to doctl, godo, and the Terraform provider. More recently involved in App Platform's Model Context Protocol integration — covering architecture, observability, and testing.

Go (Programming Language)KubernetesHelm (Software)dockerMySQLCloud Infrastructure

Projectlighthouse

Maintainer

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Remote

projectlighthouse is a blog + virtual playground for learning software engineering fundamentals. Learning by reading, building and breaking.
I maintain the software stack, I also write the content .

Go (Programming Language)RustcaddyCloud InfrastructureRedis

Remerge

Software Engineer

Mar 2023 – Aug 2023 · 5 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

Maintaining platform tools & services
Create and maintain github workflows
Contributed to pal feeds migration
Added features internal tooling
Regular tasks/bug fixes

GitHubGolangKubernetesdockerHdfsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+4

Instafreight

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022 · 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Build new features, exposing RESTful Apis, maintained monolith legacy system
Automated various tasks
Implementing the new Claims Service integration in Admin Portal
Cleaning our codebase by removing unused code
Implementing download credit notes from Carrier Portal
Fixing bugs on our platform and decreasing the tech debt
Worked with the product team to deliver various features

dockerAutomationPHPReact.jsPostgreSQL

Career break

Relocation

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 3 mos · Berlin

Benchworks

Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos · Canada (remote)

I've worked on some interesting projects where I've contributed mostly to the backend and infrastructure. I've led a backend and QA team. My responsibilities and areas of work
Plan and architect backend, testing, and ci/cd pipelines
Containerising applications
Automate various repetitive tasks and enhanced developer experience
Manage servers and deployments on AWS, Digital Ocean, and Linode
Pair programming and code reviews

GitHubdockerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Apache KafkaTest AutomationCI/CD

Tecognize training

Research Assistant

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Built NGINX log collector that uses gRPC to transmit to a Kafka cluster
Automated docker image build using GitHub action and bitbucket pipeline, that pushes the created image to AWS ECR
CLI tools with rust, communicating with different data sources
URL shortener service
Automated infrastructure provisioning using GitHub Actions and terraform
Built a DNS over TLS program using Go
Migrated a GCP-facing app to AWS using terraform
Planned and worked on the backend for the eLearning platform

NginxGo (Programming Language)Apache KafkaPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Terraform+2

Radical elements

Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Greece (Remote)

Automated testing and prepared LucentCMS (headless CMS) to laravel 8.x
Migrated mysql db to a dedicated cluster and optimized the laravel app to handle a large volume of requests
Written an isolated service in GO that handles all public APIs
Automated log visualization with various tools like access
Automated data migrations from old systems to new systems
Built test-driven API drivers in node, golang and python for LucentCMS and FastBreak (headless CMS & e-commerce)
Contributed to the frontend with twig, blade, and alpine js along with end user testing

MongoDBLaravelSvelteNode.jsPHPREST APIs

Upwork

Full Stack Engineer

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 · 5 mos

During this time, I mostly focused on learning and refreshing some of the technologies I've worked with. But also got the chance to work on various interesting projects.
Built various backend services, exposing RESTful and GraphQL APIs
Adopted AWS for multiple services using Beanstalk, S3, RDS, ECS, and SQS among many others
Contributed to the frontend with react, redux and real-time communication with WebSockets
Maintained scheduled payments with various payment gateways and payment processors. This includes PayPal, Braintree, and stripe among others
Automated testing and test creation with various stubs and templates that were used to create test code

dockerAmazon S3Amazon ECSLaravelPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)+6

Joules labs

Software Engineer

Sep 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Analysis of project requirements and development
Lead a team of 6
Introduced containerization and containerized every application with docker
Managed AWS services including but not limited to VPC, S3, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, EBS, EKS, Fargate, etc
Developed various applications with PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Vue, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and GO
Mentored freshers and new team members
Introduced testing and automated GitHub actions
Managed git, testing, and deployments
Worked with UI/UX and frontend team for better development