Kamran Ahmed

Tajawal is a flights and hotels booking platform.

I was one of the prelaunch early hires at Tajawal and have seen it grow from 20 people to 1,000. I helped build some of the core services as well as several internal tools. I was also a part of several teams during my tenure where I helped develop, launch and grow the product to support millions of requests per day.


Besides individual contributing to some of the core services, including the payment gateway, configuration APIs, CI/CD tooling, infrastructure monitoring, SDKs, reporting APIs, CRM, geocoding, fraud detection, loyalty APIs, internal packages, and tools, I helped build and lead a team of five working on the back-office app. All the company's offline stores used this app to facilitate the offline customers: the finance team for payment and reporting and the customer support team for the fulfillment and cancellations of bookings.

While leading the team, my responsibilities, apart from development, included acting as a project manager, talking to the stakeholders in getting the requirements, identifying the pain points, delivering the features, doing code reviews, O3 meetings, interviews, planning, and hiring, and so on.

Tradeling is a venture-backed company by the Dubai Government (DAFZA), aiming to build the B2B eCommerce platform in the region.

I was one of the prelaunch early hires who helped build and launch the initial product. I'm currently helping expand and add more features to facilitate the business buyers and sellers in the MENA region.

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I created this project to help others with the struggle that I was once in. I have been maintaining it for the past four years, where I release a new version showing the changes to the landscape for the past year. The project is the 8th most starred project on GitHub and is visited by hundreds of thousands of developers every month.

iTomate is an iTerm utility that lets you define your iTerm layouts, issue commands to execute in the form of YAML files, and run a single command to have iTerm prepare itself for you to start working.

The project is written in Python and is built on top of iTerm's API.

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