Managing and Organizing competitions and workshops. Mentoring students.

Microsoft Student Partner

The GitHub Stars program offers impactful developers an opportunity to showcase their work, reach more people, and shape the future of GitHub. Recognize those who go above and beyond. Lift up the people who inspire and educate your communities with the GitHub Stars program. I was selected as a GitHub star for my OpenSource contributions and here are some of my responsibilities as a GitHub star.

- Lead by example and help others hone their skills.
- Nurture and grow both well-known and less-explored communities and projects.
- Give back where I can and freely share solutions.
- Give talks, organize workshops, mentor people, etc.

https://stars.github.com/profiles/kamranahmedse/
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GitHub Star

- 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.

Senior Software Engineer

- 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.

Software Engineering Lead

- 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 

Engineering Manager

- 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.

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.

Software Engineer

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.

I have been working on the project since March 2017, went full time in December 2021 and started working with Insight Partners when they acquired the project in Jun 2022.

- Designed and developed https://roadmap.sh
- Launched teams functionality used by +5k teams.
- Launched accounts (progress tracking, friends, custom roadmaps) etc used by +800k developers.
- Launched custom editor for drawing roadmaps.
- Built an in-house tool for sending newsletters, drip campaigns, segmentation etc.
- Developed backoffice application to facilitate management, reporting etc.
- Automated all things related to infrastructure
- Reporting infrastructure setup to keep an eye on everything
- Made it to the 6th most starred project on GitHub with 200k+ GitHub Stars
- Grew the website from 0 to 900K+ monthly active users
- Grew the website from 0 to 5 million page views per month
- Grew the project's YouTube channel from 0 to +200K subscribers
- Grew from 0 to 800k+ newsletter subscribers
- Created Visual 

Founder

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