# Fayaz Ahmed

> Engineering @ Luminai

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/fayaz

Passionate about building, tinkering, and improving; most of all, love finding clever and efficient solutions to problems that matter. Wearer of many hats

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Luminai
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
● Designed and built custom workflows through a combination of TypeScript, Python, and our internal tooling to reduce human input by up to 100% across 20+ projects
● Main engineering point of contact for 10+ customers, managing and delivering on expectations and timelines
● Managed a team of 6 deployment engineers, overseeing all projects, encouraging growth, and operating as a tech lead to unblock and optimize projects
● Contributed to our internal tooling by adding features to meet customer needs
● Revamped company work tracking system, implementing a consolidated system for ticket tracking, streamlining our project progress management process
 ○ Facilitated rapid company growth by improving the onboarding process and ease of access for cross-team knowledge transfer

### Software Engineer @ AKASA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Designed and implemented Python automation scripts, workflows, and data scrapers to reduce human input by up to 80% for 20+ automation products across 9 different healthcare organizations
● Improved scalability through integration of SQL requests into our data scraping criteria
     ○ Reduced tech debt by allowing changes to our scraping criteria to be made externally from our regular update schedule, leading to up to 27% fewer tickets per project per week for engineering team
● Appointed as Lead Engineer for our largest client’s products by recommendation of manager and tech leads
     ○ Oversaw and executed design shifts, feature expansions, and team delegation while meeting client needs
● Conducted weekly code maintenance and refactoring, minimizing tech debt, and speeding up development cycle
● Built internal tool with team of 4 as part of an AKASA Hackathon to manage Kubernetes pods, existing dev machines and automation schedules
     ○ Cut down on resources wasted on allocated dev machines that were no longer in use by 18.6%
● Quickly advanced from entry on RPA focused team to more senior Workflow Design team in 4 months by manager recommendation


## Education
### BMath in Honours Statistics, minoring in Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fayaz-ahmed-sf

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Last updated: 2026-03-20