Senior software engineer · AI engineer

Ahmed Abdi

I build and lead AI, payment and messaging systems that have to keep working.

5+ years · email

Selected work

13×
RAG platform
Faster AI search on a platform I inherited: median 8.2 s to 0.6 s in production, across 509K chunks. Top 5 matched exact search in 25 of 25 runs.
5–10M
SMS platform
Messages a day. Live and multi-tenant, with billing and a client portal.
98%
Compliance ingestion pipeline
AI screening of expert-call transcripts for non-public information, on AWS infrastructure I built on my own in Terraform.
4
USSD banking platform
Telcos on one shortcode, so a bank’s customers can bank from any phone. I led testing through to go-live.
4+
Banking gateway
Banks connected to mobile banking, plus a national switch. Sole author.
939
CRM sync and dashboards
Leads in a live read-only sync, with an AI assistant that drafts but never sends.

I take ownership of hard systems and bring people with me: clear decisions, plain write-ups, and code other engineers can pick up.

Lead
Own the outcome
I take work from design to launch and stay with what happens after. On a bank’s USSD platform I led end-to-end testing on live telco networks through to go-live, and at Channel Dynamics I built all of the AWS infrastructure myself.
Communicate
Say it plainly
Incidents get a written account of what happened, why, the fix and how to prevent it. Handovers get a document that maps app screens to API endpoints.
Team
Build with others
I work in shared codebases and build on services other engineers own, like AI tools that run through existing backend services instead of around them.
Evidence
Prove it first
Before trusting a faster search, I compared its results against exact search. Every number I quote comes from a measurement.

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