# Ahmad Tavakoli

> Senior Software Engineer at Intuit

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ahmad

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in modern web application development with a passion for readable and scalable code. Strong engineering professional with a Computer Science M.Sc. focused on Machine Learning from University of Windsor.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer — AI Engineering (CodeAssist) @ Intuit
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Building Gen AI developer tooling on Intuit's CodeAssist team. Current focus areas:
Fine-tuning large code LLMs (32B parameter, LoRA) and building RAG pipelines for enterprise code generation
Co-designed CodeCraft, an AI integration platform that connects organizational engineering standards with AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf) via MCP
Built an LLM evaluation framework (LLM-as-a-judge) measuring AI-generated code quality across 12 enterprise best-practice domains — demonstrated +61% quality improvement and 80% reduction in critical security failures

### Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead @ Intuit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, CA
Tech lead for Booksreview and Bookkeeping Centre teams within QuickBooks Online.
Enhanced QBO Banking page performance, reducing P90 latency by 18%
Architected and implemented Transactions Grid, a new universal grid component used across QBO
Led initiatives to reduce failed customer interactions (FCIs), resulting in over 12 million fewer FCIs in FY24

### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Edmonton, Canada Area

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Edmonton, Canada Area
Led the design and development of the CA Manage Tax Module redesign, using Apollo 2 and React. We achieved a reduction of 71% in terms of size and 68% in round-trip API time on average (using Apollo InMemoryCache).

Led the design and development of QBO Export data plugin using React and Redux with ~25K monthly users.

Contributed to QBO Monolith Decomposition effort on Localization and Global tax modules.

### Software Engineer @ Varafy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Edmonton, Canada Area
Optimization and Improvement of a geometric constraint solver, in Node.js.
Development of Varafy web application using RESTful APIs (Express.js) and UI (Redux and React).

### Software Developer @ Vena Solutions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area
Designed and developed a license management system end to end, using Hibernate, Backbone-relational, RESTful architecture.
Utilized aspect-oriented design to introduce system interrupts in C# using PostSharp.
Contributed to Vena WebSocket framework implementation, using socket.io.
Worked on Vena Dashboards, an OLAP reporting tool using ECharts.
Took measures to prevent XSS attacks, using OWASP ESAPI.

### Java Web Developer @ Autodata Solutions
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | London, Canada Area
Increased team productivity by implementing continuous integration using Jenkins and reducing code complexity, using SonarQube.
Developed Java servlets as the controller, JSP as the view for Autodata Chrysler configurator application, using Spring MVC and Java EE.
Worked on efficiency and performance improvement of database stored procedures and queries in MySQL/iBatis framework.

### Java Developer Co-op @ Autodata Solutions
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | London, Canada Area
Developed Autodata Test Automation Framework using Java Reflections, TestNG framework, and Selenium WebDriver.

### Graduate Assistant @ University of Windsor
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Windsor, Canada
Graduate Assistant and Lab Instructor for Advanced Java and Introduction to Algorithms courses (ANSI C).


## Education
### M.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Windsor
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Sapienza Università di Roma
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

### B.S. in Computer Engineering
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Jan 2005 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tavakolia

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Last updated: 2026-03-22