Ahmed Taher  
Software Engineer | Full-Stack & Data | AI Systems  
Feb 22, 2005 | Amman, Jordan | +962 7777 50260  
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
PROFILE  
Nomuw Holdings, Inc., Remote, USA — Founding Software & Data  
Engineer  
Jan 2023 – Feb 2026  
Software Engineer with 8 years of professional  
experience — first commercial project at 13.  
Employee #1 and equity holder at a US-funded  
startup. Won 5 hackathons including an international  
event in Bangkok. Shipped a consumer app with  
10,000+ downloads and an open-source Go  
video-editing library. Comfortable at every layer —  
from writing an HTTP server and Unix shell in C/C++  
from scratch to orchestrating multi-agent AI pipelines.  
Seeking a visa-sponsored role in Germany; fluent  
English, German A1.  
• Owned the full technical stack as the first and sole engineer for 3+  
years, building everything from the initial scraper to production  
data infrastructure.  
• Reduced P&L dashboard load from 10 seconds to under 1  
second by designing materialized views and a dim-date  
currency-rates table.  
• Supplied the analytics layer with millions of product records daily  
across hundreds of SKUs by architecting a Bronze/Silver/Gold  
ETL pipeline via Apache Airflow on the Amazon Seller Partner  
API.  
• Shipped the company’s first product solo (Django + Vue + Figma  
designs), then scaled the architecture by leading migration to  
Kotlin microservices and Nuxt 3 as the team grew.  
EDUCATION  
42 Network — 42 Amman  
Aug 2024 – May 2026  
CS Core Curriculum  
Peer-to-peer, no-lecture engineering program ranked  
3rd globally (WURI 2026 Real-Impact). Level 17  
unlocks an RNCP credential recognised in Germany  
& France (master’s-equivalent).  
Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JoDDB), Amman, Jordan  
— Full-Stack Engineer (Contract)  
Feb 2026 – May 2026  
Co-founded Give Back Community Collective (GCC) —  
peer-to-peer learning and project standards initiative at 42  
Amman.  
• Delivered a production-ready platform for Aselsan (defense  
electronics) in 3 months, hired directly after winning 1st place at  
the JoDDB Hackathon.  
42 Network — 42 Amman  
Apr 2024 – May 2024  
Piscine: Low-Level Programming  
Intensive selection program focused on C  
programming, problem solving, and Unix  
fundamentals.  
• Covered the full API surface — 44 endpoints across 9 controllers  
with complete OpenAPI docs — using Clean Architecture on  
ASP.NET Core 10 with JWT + RBAC and a 10-table PostgreSQL  
schema.  
• Delivered a fully E2E-tested frontend by building React 19 /  
Next.js 16 / TypeScript with TanStack Query, Zustand,  
Tailwind CSS v4, and Recharts.  
Al-Hussein College Sec. School  
2019 – 2023  
Tawjihi 96.9 / 100 — top student; top 1% nationally  
TECHNICAL SKILLS  
Languages  
Sitech, Inc., Remote — Full-Stack Engineer  
Jan 2022 – Jun 2022  
C, C++, Go, Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, C#, Dart (Flutter)  
Backend & Mobile  
• Shipped the end-to-end mobile product by building Flutter  
frontend and Django REST backend, including an async email  
worker for notifications.  
• Cut feature development overhead by designing a Django plugin  
system where views, managers, and serializers register as  
self-contained modules reused across product surfaces.  
Django, FastAPI, ASP.NET Core (.NET 10), Micronaut,  
NestJS; Flutter, React Native; REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI  
Frontend  
React / Next.js, Vue / Nuxt, Angular; Tailwind CSS v4, Radix  
UI, TanStack Query, Zustand  
Data  
PostgreSQL (dimensional modeling, materialized views,  
ARC Technologies, New Orleans, Remote, USA — Junior Full-Stack  
Engineer (Angular, Flutter, Django)  
Apr 2021 – Jan 2022  
query optimization), Apache Airflow (ETL), MongoDB,  
SQLite  
• Replaced manual asset tracking with real-time visibility by building  
a Flutter app with live map and NFC scanning, plus an Angular  
dashboard for project management, chamber monitoring, and  
billing.  
AI & Agents  
LLM pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, MCP integration,  
Arabic OCR, VLMs (Qwen2/3VL), ChromaDB, Ollama; TTS  
(Gemini, Qwen); GPU inference on Replicate, RunPod,  
modal.com  
Aqaba University of Technologies, Amman, Jordan — Junior  
Full-Stack Engineer (Angular, Django)  
Jan 2020 – Apr 2021  
Infrastructure  
Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Portainer, CI/CD, GitHub  
• Delivered and maintained the university’s full digital infrastructure  
as sole developer, supporting high-volume weekly workflows for  
loan/scholarship applications and research publication listings.  
Actions, AWS (S3, Lambda, SNS/SQS), socket  
programming, epoll  
Self-Hosted  
Mailcow (mail server), MinIO (S3-compatible storage),  
Modern Co. For Fertilizer Production (MCFP), Amman, Jordan —  
Intern Web Developer (Angular, Django)  
2018  
PocketBase, Solidtime, Plane, Docker Compose stacks;  
VPS management on Hetzner & Contabo  
Tools  
• Unified company operations across 10 distinct user roles — with  
RBAC and real-time inter-department chat — first commercial  
engineering engagement, age 13.  
Git, Figma, Postman, Neovim, Tmux  
HACKATHONS & AWARDS  
SELECTED PROJECTS  
#2 Place (International)  
Nov 2025  
42 Asia × CDG Hackathon, Bangkok  
Srrah, Personal Project — Solo Developer  
Feb 2020 – 2023  
#1 Place  
Oct 2025  
JoDDB Hackathon — Jordan Design & Dev. Bureau  
• Reached 10,000+ downloads on Google Play & App Store by  
building a privacy-first expense manager in high school and  
re-engineering it from Ionic/Django to Flutter/Sqflite for offline-first,  
E2E-encrypted operation.  
#1 Place  
Oct 2025  
MenaDevs AI Hackathon  
#1 Place  
Jun 2025  
May 2025  
Dahab Jo Hackathon  
Project201, Jordan Smart Government Program — Team Lead  
Nov 2025 – present  
#1 Place  
Internal AI Hackathon, 42 Amman  
• Led a 6-person team building AI/ML tooling for Jordan’s  
government, after placing #2 at the 42 Asia × CDG International  
Hackathon (Bangkok).  
• Enabled Arabic document intelligence per ministry by fine-tuning  
OCR models and deploying an LLM summarization pipeline fully  
on-premise.  
LANGUAGES  
Arabic — Native  
English — Professional working proficiency  
German — A1 (actively learning; targeting B1)  
• Reduced coordination overhead by building an email-threaded  
document system and deploying Solidtime and Slicing Pie for the  
team.  
GoMontage, Open-Source Video Editing Go Library — Author  
Feb 2026 – present  
• Published a video editing Go library at  
github.com/AhmedHodiani/gomontage — a four-layer video  
editing library (Clips Timeline Compiler Engine) that  
compiles Go structs into FFmpeg filter graphs with a full CLI.  
• Unlocked visual review of generated edits in a professional NLE  
by reverse-engineering Kdenlive’s C++ source to implement a  
compatible XML export format.  
Webserv, 42 Amman — Systems Project  
Jan 2026 – Mar 2026  
• Built a complete HTTP/1.1 server in C++98 from scratch without  
AI (github.com/ahmedhodiani/webserv), implementing  
epoll/kqueue, virtual hosts, CGI, nginx-style config, chunked  
encoding, and 3 internal libraries; validated by 130+ test suites.  
Agentic YouTube Production System, Personal Project — Architect  
& Developer  
Mar 2026 – present  
• Shipped 8 long-form YouTube videos (including a 41-minute  
documentary) and 12 Shorts by building a 7-phase agentic  
pipeline (research draft script TTS B-roll assembly)  
with HANDOFF points and machine-readable state.  
• Reduced manual production effort by orchestrating concurrent  
specialised sub-agents (wiki researcher, B-roll planner, resource  
checker) via a FastAPI server with a Vue 3 dashboard and a  
self-hosted MediaWiki MCP.