Ahmed Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

Dubai, UAE

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

Skills

PythonCloud ArchitectureMachine LearningAWSSystem DesignDockerKubernetesPostgreSQL

Professional experience

Senior Software EngineerJan 2022 - Present

Emirates NBD | Dubai, UAE

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

Software EngineerJun 2019 - Dec 2021

Smart Dubai | Dubai, UAE

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

Junior DeveloperJul 2018 - May 2019

DEWA | Dubai, UAE

Built internal dashboards for energy consumption monitoring.

Software Engineering InternJan 2018 - Jun 2018

Microsoft UAE | Dubai, UAE

Worked on Azure DevOps tooling for MENA enterprise clients.

Education

BSc, Computer ScienceSep 2014 - Jun 2018

Khalifa University