Ahmed Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

PROFILE SUMMARY

Building scalable tech solutions for the Middle East. Passionate about AI and cloud infrastructure. Previously at DEWA and Smart Dubai. I write about distributed systems and the GCC startup ecosystem on the side.

KEY SKILLS

Python • Cloud Architecture • Machine Learning • AWS • System Design • Docker • Kubernetes • PostgreSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2022 - Present

Emirates NBD | Full-time | Dubai, UAE

Leading cloud migration initiatives and building ML-powered fraud detection systems. Reduced false positives by 34% in Q1 2023.

Software Engineer

Jun 2019 - Dec 2021

Smart Dubai | Full-time | Dubai, UAE

Developed smart city APIs and IoT integration platforms serving 2M+ residents.

Junior Developer

Jul 2018 - May 2019

DEWA | Full-time | Dubai, UAE

Built internal dashboards for energy consumption monitoring.

EDUCATION

BSc in Computer Science

Sep 2014 - Jun 2018

Khalifa University

INTERNSHIPS

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

Microsoft UAE | Full-time | Dubai, UAE

Worked on Azure DevOps tooling for MENA enterprise clients.

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solutions Architect Professional — Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Professional ML Engineer — Google

LANGUAGES

ARABIC (NATIVE) • ENGLISH (PROFESSIONAL)

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