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Full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building, shipping, and scaling products for early-stage startups. Strong focus on iterative development, quality, and team leadership from early product stages through growth and scaling. Driven by measurable impact, I’ve delivered multiple real-time AI and processing systems, improved performance and reliability, and led engineering teams across end-to-end product development—from architecture and deployment to analytics, testing, and optimization.…Full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building, shipping, and scaling products for early-stage startups. Strong focus on iterative development, quality, and team leadership from early product stages through growth and scaling. Driven by measurable impact, I’ve delivered multiple real-time AI and processing systems, improved performance and reliability, and led engineering teams across end-to-end product development—from architecture and deployment to analytics, testing, and optimization.

Ahmed El Bannan

Full Stack Developer, Software Engineer, Web Developer, +1

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Full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building, shipping, and scaling products for early-stage startups. Strong focus on iterative development, quality, and team leadership from early product stages through growth and scaling. Driven by measurable impact, I’ve delivered multiple real-time AI and processing systems, improved performance and reliability, and led engineering teams across end-to-end product development—from architecture and deployment to analytics, testing, and optimization.…Full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building, shipping, and scaling products for early-stage startups. Strong focus on iterative development, quality, and team leadership from early product stages through growth and scaling. Driven by measurable impact, I’ve delivered multiple real-time AI and processing systems, improved performance and reliability, and led engineering teams across end-to-end product development—from architecture and deployment to analytics, testing, and optimization.

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Full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building, shipping, and scaling products for early-stage startups. Strong focus on iterative development, quality, and team leadership from early product stages through growth and scaling.

Driven by measurable impact, I’ve delivered multiple real-time AI and processing systems, improved performance and reliability, and led engineering teams across end-to-end product development—from architecture and deployment to analytics, testing, and optimization.

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Founding Engineer at Magic School

December 1, 2023 - Present

Architected and shipped a real-time AI content moderation system in six weeks, covering 100% of student-generated content and processing 75M+ messages per month while keeping false-positive and false-negative rates below 10%. Increased moderation cache hit rate from ~10% to 99%, reducing LLM API costs by over $30,000 per month. Built browser-based voice activity detection (via WebAssembly) and speech-to-text / text-to-speech pipelines, reducing transcription latency by 86%. Developed an LLM-powered documentation ingestion pipeline handling up to 20 pages in parallel with 98% extraction accuracy and supporting 50M+ document imports. Delivered Google Drive/OneDrive one-click integrations adopted by 74% of active users, reducing lesson and distribution time by ~50%. Built a rich LaTeX/KaTeX authoring experience for rendering and editing complex equations to expand capabilities for STEM educators.

Founding Engineer at Tome

April 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023

Developed, deployed, and iterated on SaaS offerings and integrated with internal AI pipelines within two months. Spearheaded an end-to-end testing framework, catching ~83% of bugs before deployment. Refactored multiple APIs for over 950% round-trip performance improvement. Built a dynamic data transformation system supporting 12+ API versions without affecting core frontend code, reducing API-related code paths by over 93%. Implemented extensive analytics and error tracking to provide deep insights into user behavior. Replaced SCSS with CSS-in-JS, improving development speed and reducing CSS code by ~43%.

Engineering Lead at Dgraph Lab s

April 1, 2021 - September 1, 2021

Led effort to replace Auth0 with a custom auth system in two weeks, including robust OAuth support. Mentored new junior hires and turned them into productive team members in under three months.

Growth Engineer

April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2021

Led efforts to introduce A/B testing and cross-site analytics using Mixpanel/Google Analytics. Spearheaded A/B testing efforts resulting in ~40% increase in page performance. Unified ads and website tracking, decreasing cost per lead by ~40% and increasing the number of high-quality leads by over 200%.

Senior Software Engineer

December 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020

Built and deployed a functioning DBaaS MVP in under a month. Led DevOps efforts to dynamically scale Kubernetes clusters for DBaaS in two weeks.

Engineering Lead at Platform Systems

December 1, 2019 - January 1, 2022

Built a full edge-to-cloud live streaming solution in under a week with sub-1s delay on 4G. Spearheaded development of three separate web frontends and streaming systems. Ported and revamped an older frontend to a modern framework in under a month, resulting in ~120% performance increase. Developed a custom streaming service enabling AI-annotated live streaming over 4G. Expanded CVAT open-source to support custom annotation features, streamlined and modularized streaming/annotation code for >75% performance gains, and spearheaded a Go microservices architecture to improve redundancy and performance. Created and deployed hardware modules for live streaming (Python/JS) in less than 8 hours, and developed advanced pagination/filtering to reduce loading time by ~85%.

Founder at Elm Connect

February 1, 2018 - December 1, 2019

Developed the full-stack of a complex SaaS product in under two months using Vue/Node/PostgreSQL. Integrated payment processors enabling customers to process $200,000+/year. Sold $10,000+ in B2B subscriptions to clients and resolved customer complaints for almost 4,000 users. Revamped system infrastructure to resolve server crashes and increase uptime to over 99.5%.

Co-Founder at GSKIP Grocery Delivery

April 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018

Spearheaded development of an online grocery ordering and delivery system in under 45 days. Streamlined registration to generate a 170% increase in new users.

Engineering Lead at Smart Labs

August 1, 2014 - November 1, 2019

Coordinated a team of five developers to design, build, and scale three separate software platforms. Decreased product release cycle length from ~three years to under a year (over 60% time savings). Converted and optimized REST servers to Node.js, cutting server costs by ~40%. Revamped live streaming module using WebRTC, reducing latency by over 90% (3s to ~100ms). Mentored and integrated a rotating cohort of interns into development teams in under a month on average. (Details are consolidated from the resume bullets provided.)