Ahmed Taher

Hired directly after winning 1st place at the JoDDB Hackathon. Built a production manufacturing ops platform for Aselsan (defense electronics).

• Built full-stack app from scratch: ASP.NET Core (.NET 10) with Clean Architecture + Next.js 16 / React 19 / TypeScript frontend; 10-table PostgreSQL schema with JWT auth and role-based access control.
• Built 44 REST API endpoints across 9 controllers with full OpenAPI docs; frontend used TanStack Query, Zustand, Radix UI, Tailwind CSS v4, Recharts, and Playwright E2E tests.

First developer hired; built initial bot scraper, later granted equity. Wrote and maintained a significant portion of the legacy and current codebases.

• Designed and maintained ETL pipelines via Apache Airflow to extract large volumes of data from the Amazon Seller Partner API.
• Managed a PostgreSQL database with layered architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), including complex views and dimension tables for efficient querying.
• Built Python data validation tools and full-stack features (Kotlin, Nuxt, Nitro) for scraping and a P&L dashboard.

• Worked as a solo dev and deployed the landing page and elearning system on the uni's server.
• Managed high-volume traffic, processing weekly loan/scholarship applications.

End-to-end agentic pipeline for AI-orchestrated YouTube storytelling videos, built to demonstrate well-architected human-AI workflows using OpenCode as the runtime.

• Architected a 7-phase production pipeline (research → draft → script → TTS → assembly) with defined HANDOFF points and machine-readable state via per-project journal.json.

After winning #2 place at 42 Asia x CDG Hackathon in Thailand, our team received media coverage in Jordan, attracting government ministries to collaborate with our winning team. We formed Project201 Group, leading 6-person team building AI/ML solutions for Jordan's government with the Jordan Smart Government Program.

• Lead software development team building artificial intelligence system with fine-tuned OCR models for Arabic image processing and text extraction.
• Architected AI/ML pipeline using LLMs for document summarization, running on-premise with offline capabilities.
• Developed email-like document management system with threading, troubleshooting workflow and debugging issues.
• Deployed self-hosted infrastructure: mailing server, Solidtime, Slicing Pie, demonstrating ability to collaborate effectively.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders using strong communication skills and analytical problem-solving.
• Plan to deploy servers per ministry, improving performance and ensuring reliability.

42 School project. Fully functional HTTP/1.1 server in C++98, built from scratch without AI assistance.

• Implemented epoll/kqueue event-driven I/O, virtual hosts, CGI/1.0, nginx-like config, chunked encoding, multipart form data, and file uploads.
• Architected three internal libraries (libhttp, libutils, libdir) and an Express-inspired middleware pipeline; validated by a custom Python test framework with 130+ suites.
• Github: github.com/ahmedhodiani/webserv

Cross-platform Electron app with its own file extension (.what): infinite canvas, rich content embedding, local-first and fully offline. Github: github.com/ahmedhodiani/what

42 School project. Recreated a mini Bash in C from scratch.

• Implemented parsing, piping, redirections, env variable expansion, built-in commands, child process management, file descriptors, and signal handling.
• Built three custom libraries from scratch: libft (C stdlib reimplementation), libgc (garbage collector), and libtrue (generic linked list).

Peer-to-peer, project-based program focused on systems programming, algorithms, and software engineering (C, C++, Unix, networking).

Intensive selection program focused on C programming, problem solving, and Unix fundamentals.