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Five years in software, three of them full time

I started writing and publishing smart contracts alongside my degree in 2021, joined DubizzleLabs in 2023 and spent three years on the backends behind Zameen.com, Bayut.sa and Propforce, then built the AI layer on top of them. I am now a Forward Deployed Engineer at UnternehmerTUM's Venture Lab in Munich, doing an M.Sc. at TU Ilmenau alongside it.

Career

In detail

Overlapping, because the early years ran alongside a degree.

Aug 2026 – present · Working student

Forward Deployed Engineer II, Intelligence

UnternehmerTUM · Venture Lab · Munich

  • Embedded in Venture Lab product teams, carrying AI use cases from concept to deployed internal product on multi-day cycles.
  • Building an AI use-case validation application for the lab's ventures, with compliance tooling that checks work against internal AI policy and EU AI Act risk criteria.
  • Shipping production LLM pipelines rather than notebooks: RAG over internal corpora on the Claude API, wired into live Supabase and Salesforce data.

NestJS · Node.js · Next.js · Python · Claude API · RAG · Supabase · Salesforce

Jul 2023 – Jul 2026 · Full-time

Associate → Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer, Backend

DubizzleLabs · Propforce, Zameen.com, Bayut.sa · 40M+ monthly users

  • Designed and led AVA, an internal AI copilot and autonomous delivery pipeline adopted across multiple Dubizzle products. Cut PR prep on affected workflows from ~40 minutes to ~6.
  • Architected a Model Context Protocol gateway exposing internal microservice APIs to LLM agents as typed, permissioned tools, with dynamic schema generation and full invocation logging.
  • Designed the production workflow behind Zara AI, an autonomous calling agent running across Propforce and Jarvis. 10+ campaigns in three markets.
  • Cut core query latency 45% by reshaping MySQL and PostgreSQL schemas around real access patterns and removing N+1 fan-out from hot read paths.
  • Shipped an end-to-end mortgage product covering application through approval, adopted by 5,000+ active clients.

Node.js · TypeScript · NestJS · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis · OpenSearch · AWS · Claude API · MCP · LangChain

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · Contract, part-time

Software Engineer, Backend

Beacon Secure · UK security-technology startup

  • Built the complete backend from scratch in NestJS, TypeScript and MongoDB for an acquired product line; the secure REST API patterns became the team's template for new services.

NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · REST APIs

Mar 2021 – Jan 2024 · Part-time

Blockchain Developer & Community Lead

Stacks Pakistan · Bitcoin L2 ecosystem, New York based

  • Wrote and published Clarity smart contracts on Stacks.
  • Led the Stacks developer chapter in Pakistan through hackathons, bootcamps and mentoring, training 89 students in Web3 and backend engineering; 22 went on to international software roles.

Clarity · Smart contracts · Web3

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · Internship

Technical Content Engineer, Answers

Educative.io · Lahore, Pakistan

  • Authored 35+ technical answers across computer networking, data structures and operating systems, and peer-reviewed 40 to 60 written by other interns. Received 3 Best Answer awards.
Education & research

Where the integrity work comes from

Mar 2026 – Oct 2028 (expected)

M.Sc. Computer & System Engineering

Technische Universität Ilmenau

  • Focus on distributed systems, AI integration and data integrity for LLM pipelines.

2024 – present

Data-integrity layer for LangChain QnA systems

Independent research with two PhD researchers, University of Verona

  • Blockchain-anchored Merkle fingerprints over a retrieval corpus, re-verified at inference time, so tampering with source documents is detected before a poisoned answer is served. Paper in progress.

Aug 2019 – Sep 2023

B.Sc. Computer Science

FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore

  • Dean's Honour Roll for multiple semesters. Ranked 7th nationally in the NU admission test.
  • Aspire Leaders Program, Aspire Institute, incubated at Harvard University, 2023. Community Evangelist for Algorand UK, 2022 to 2024.
References

All nine, in full

Written on LinkedIn by the people who managed me and worked beside me, quoted complete and in their own words.

Independent confirmation of the three Dubizzle systems above

“I had the opportunity to work closely with Muhammad Ahmad on several AI-focused initiatives, including building MCP-based integrations and agentic systems capable of calling, messaging, and engaging customers across different channels.

What stood out most was his ownership. Once Muhammad took responsibility for something, he could be relied upon to drive it forward, solve problems, and deliver without needing constant follow-up.”

Zeeshan Hasan Product & Engineering Leader · managed me directly at DubizzleLabs 20 July 2026

I have been working with Muhammad Ahmad at Dubizzle Labs for the past 1.5 years, where we are part of the same team. Ahmad consistently demonstrates strong collaboration skills and a proactive approach to his work, contributing effectively to team success. He is reliable, detail oriented, and always willing to take on challenges to ensure high-quality results.

I have also known Ahmad since our time at FAST NUCES, where he was my junior during our Bachelor's studies. His organizational abilities were evident even then, particularly through his involvement in successfully managing several SOFTEC events.

I look forward to seeing Ahmad achieve even greater milestones in his career.

Muhammad Shahzad

Senior Software Engineer, Dubizzle · same team 30 December 2024

It is my pleasure to highly recommend Muhammad Ahmad as an exceptional individual and professional, particularly in the realms of technology and the Web3 ecosystem. I had the privilege of collaborating with Muhammad during the Stacks Hackathon, Stacks Clarity Developer Bootcamp and Stacks Xplore1.0 conference, where we delved deep into the intricacies of the Web3 landscape, and it was an enriching experience.

Muhammad is a tech enthusiast with a strong passion for creating impactful solutions within the technology ecosystem. His expertise as a backend engineer is evident in his meticulous approach to problem-solving and his dedication to delivering high-quality results. What sets Muhammad apart is his unwavering commitment to leveraging technology for positive change and his continuous exploration of Dapps, DAOs, and NFTs.

Beyond his technical prowess, Muhammad's leadership capabilities are truly commendable. His purpose-driven leadership style, coupled with his resilient mindset, makes him an invaluable asset to any organization. He approaches challenges with determination, always striving to find innovative solutions that drive meaningful impact.

Muhammad's mission to democratize decentralized solutions and his deep understanding of emerging technologies make him a standout professional in the tech industry. I have no doubt that he will continue to make significant contributions and inspire those around him.

I wholeheartedly endorse Muhammad Ahmad and am confident that he will excel in any role that allows him to harness his skills, passion, and vision for a decentralized future.

Muhammad Zubair

AI Transformation Consultant · Stacks collaborator 7 April 2024

I had the pleasure of working with Ahmad in multiple capacities during our undergrad days. He is a passionate individual and a true go-getter. Once he sets his eyes on a target, he gets into a montage of dedication and focus to deliver the results.

The way he has enhanced his skill set on the technical side is truly remarkable, and it serves as the cherry on top for his excellence in social and leadership skills.

For anyone looking to work with Ahmad, I recommend him as an excellent software engineer and a formidable team player.

Humza Noor

Software Engineer, Data & AI · FAST alumnus 12 July 2024

Muhammad was an intern at Educative Answers during the summer 2022. As an intern, he wrote 30+ articles and reviewed 40-60 articles written by other Answers interns. If I have to pick out an intern with an amazing work ethic, it'd be Muhammad Ahmad. He proved to be extremely hardworking, well spoken and detail oriented over the course of his Educative Answers internship. Muhammad Ahmad was assigned some of the really challenging topics in the Networking, Data Structures and the operating system domain. He manifested a remarkable attention to detail by creating answers that hardly required any edits. I think he'll be a wonderful addition to any workplace that he ends up in and has a bright future ahead.

Celeste Salopek

Answers Program Manager, Educative · managed me directly 12 September 2022

Ahmad is a kind and intelligent person with whom I liked working. During his work, I was fortunate to be his Technical lead. I appreciate how precise and in-depth his work is. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

Adeel Qayyum

Team Lead, Educative · managed me directly 24 August 2022

Ahmed is very talented person. He is a quick learner and always ready to participate in any work. His passion for learning new things is very admirable. Always a great pleasure working with him.

Usama Naeem

Software Engineer · managed me directly 17 April 2021

It's a pleasure working with him as he creates a positive environment around his positivity. I was lucky enough to review some of his work and I like how detailed and deep it is. Some of his answers were so good that I specially asked the community team to tweet them to the public.

Talha Irfan

Team Lead · ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS 2023

Ahmad has great passion for learning things out of the box!

Nabeel Qadeer

Coach · Entrepreneur · Content Producer

Written on LinkedIn, where each one can be read at its source.