$ ./ahmed --introduce

Ahmed Ismail

Software Engineer Intern @ Shopify — Database Platform, Ottawa

email github linkedin x resume

$ whoami

Computer Systems Engineering student at Carleton, graduating April 2027.

I'm a Software Engineer Intern at Shopify on the Database Platform team, working on database services. Before this I was at Tesla on computer vision for vehicle service, TrendAI on real-time ML infrastructure, Ross Video on test automation, and Nokia on validation tooling for optical systems.

Outside of code: gym, video games, Marvel marathons, and Egypt whenever I can swing it.

I also teach CS on TikTok and Instagram — data structures, algorithms, and career advice. Where that and everything else has landed:

  • 70K+followers on TikTok & Instagram
  • 4.25Mmonthly views on CS content
  • 7,000+users on ShaghalnyShokran
  • 3.7GPA at Carleton

$ cat experience.txt

  1. Software Engineer Intern Shopify · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Sep 2026 – Present
    • Incoming Fall 2026 intern joining the Database Platform team (Database Services)
  2. Software Engineer Intern Tesla · Fremont, California, United States May 2026 – Aug 2026
    • Trained YOLO damage-classification models in PyTorch/OpenCV reaching 98.9% recall at a 2.1% false-positive rate in production
    • Built an interior-condition model combining polygon segmentation, anomaly detection, and classification to automate service
    • Diagnosed Ansible deployment bug bricking single-NIC devices by binding uplink and static IP to one interface, raising uptime 50%
    • Built hardware API linking cameras and Raspberry Pi to automate vehicle service actions, cutting manual inspection 70%
    • Cut labeling time 50% with a semi-automated Label Studio pipeline feeding 10K+ high-quality annotations into training
    • Built Arduino-driven laser trigger cutting camera capture latency to <10us and reducing missed/blurred frames by 90%
  3. Software Engineer Intern TrendAI · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Jan 2026 – Apr 2026
    • Deployed a real-time ML pipeline with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and OpenVINO for low-latency AI guardrail detection
    • Implemented Terraform IaC for AWS SageMaker Model Registry across 10 regions, reducing ML model provisioning time by 90%
    • Designed an AWS CloudWatch dashboard for 15+ Lambdas across 4 environments, increasing alarm detection speed by 28%
    • Established CI/CD with GitHub Actions and multi-architecture Docker builds, enabling consistent and reliable daily releases
    • Engineered Grafana k6 framework measuring throughput, latency, and SLA compliance, achieving 4x faster load testing
  4. Software Engineer Intern Ross Video Ltd. · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
    • Developed video validation framework using Java/Selenium/Maven with 10+ page models and reusable TestNG components
    • Refactored legacy automation framework to Java 14+, reducing code duplication by 40% and cutting test execution time by 30%
  5. Software Engineer Intern Nokia · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Jan 2025 – Aug 2025
    • Engineered unified Python validation interface replacing legacy framework for 800G optical systems, reducing test setup time by 70%
    • Migrated 50+ legacy Perl/TCL test modules to Python, boosting test speed by 25% and enabling reuse across 3+ product lines

$ cat skills.txt

languages
Python, Java, C, C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL
cloud / devops
AWS, Docker, Serverless Framework, Terraform, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, Linux
frameworks
Flask, React, Express.js, Node.js, Spring Boot, Selenium, TestNG, PyTest, k6, gRPC, Git
data
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
ai / ml
PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, OpenVINO, NumPy, SageMaker, Databricks, YOLO
ai tools
Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw

$ ls projects/

  • ShaghalnyShokran AI resume reviewer — real-time streaming, ATS scoring, tuned prompts across flagship models. 7,000+ users. PythonFlaskPostgreSQLRedisAnthropic APIRailway site
  • Meeting Voice Agent Joins Google Meet, transcribes live, talks back to participants, and auto-extracts tasks into an Obsidian vault. YC Hackathon, Summer 2026. TypeScriptNext.jsFastAPIPipecatClaude SDKDeepgram code demo
  • MediClarify AI medical document simplifier ainlp code demo
  • EcoLens Sustainability tracker sustainability code demo
  • Nobu Money tracker fintech code demo
  • Sewy Football manager AI journalist llmbot code demo
  • Portfolio This page — there's a working shell in the corner, go type sudo in it htmlcssjs code

$ ls socials/

Making CS content since 2022, and it grew faster than anything else I've built — top post sits at 1.8M views.

$ cat education.txt

  • Carleton University B.Eng., Computer Systems Engineering — GPA 3.7/4.0 Expected Apr 2027

Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems.