Islam Ahmad

About Islam Ahmad

Accomplished Engineering Manager with extensive experience in Information Technology, multiple business domains, and work environments. Excellent hands-on experience managing and cooperating with smart engineers and engineering managers. Recognized as a hands-on leader that can build anything from scratch and transform teams and organizations into a productive, positive, and thriving culture.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Lead

   Ultra Mobile

   Oct 2022 — Present · Plano, TX, US

   Oversee and manage a dynamic team of software engineers in building platforms, designing reviews, and decreasing technical finances.• Leading three teams of software engineers, mentor, guide, and help them in:• Building a platform that provides MVNO as a service.• Cross-collaborate with other teams to solve complex problems.• Technical and architectural design review.• Discovering and tackling tech debt in existing solutions.• Re-writing an abstraction layer API for 3rd party partners.• Collaborating with SDLC leads to continuously improve teams’ processes.• Working closely with Product Lead to build better product portfolio.• Pairing with engineers to brainstorm and propose ideas and improvements.• Establishing and maintain relations and trust with business users.• Leading chartering team norms.• Building a strong relation with members through customized 1:1 meeting.• Pair programming with engineers and doing code review.• Cross collaborating with other technical teams on daily basis to build cross team harmony.• Leading response to emergencies and service interruption with collaboration from on-call engineers.

Education

• University of the Cumberlands

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology

• Alexandria University

  Bachelor's degree, Engineering

  2002 — 2007

• Maharishi International University

  Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering

  2019 — 2021

• Information Technology Institute

  Diploma, System Admin

  2008 — 2009