# Shahir Ahmed - Software Engineer

Last updated: 2026-02-21
Canonical URL: https://www.shahirahmed.com
Machine-readable profile: https://www.shahirahmed.com/llms.json

## Quick Summary
Shahir Ahmed is a Software Engineer in the United States. He builds AI-assisted full-stack products with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Python, PostgreSQL, and Firebase.

## Current Role
### Software Engineer, Sarva (May 2025 - Present)
- Builds a vendor management and marketplace platform for South Asian grocery supply chains.
- Cut p95 latency by 50% by replacing sequential scans with vector similarity search in a Python RAG pipeline.
- Reduced vendor inventory time by 60% via voice-based inventory using OpenAI Whisper (90+ languages).
- Built 4 GPT-based assistants for order tracking, product search, and inventory workflows.
- Implemented Stripe Connect with identity verification and added Firebase AppCheck plus role-based auth.

## Previous Experience
### Software Engineer Intern, FarmData2 (May 2024 - May 2025)
- Refactored 22+ Vue.js components to Vuex and reduced form latency by 60%.
- Built 18+ Node.js APIs with PostgreSQL transaction rollbacks and 30+ Cypress tests.

### Open Source Contributor, Mermaid.js (Jan 2025 - Apr 2025)
- Ranked top 25 among 600+ contributors.
- Shipped 3 merged PRs (text wrapping, auto-scaling labels, customizable styling).

### Software Engineer Volunteer, 84 Lumber (Sep 2023 - Jan 2024)
- Built ANTLR-based transpilation pipelines to migrate 10K+ lines of CBASIC to Python/Java.

## Open Source
- Mermaid.js PRs: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/pulls?q=is%3Apr+involves%3AShahir-47+is%3Aclosed
- FarmData2 PRs: https://github.com/FarmData2/FarmData2/pulls?q=is%3Apr+involves%3AShahir-47+is%3Aclosed
- OSS portfolio: https://github.com/Shahir-47/open-source-contributions

## Featured Projects
### Sarva
- URL: https://www.sarvabazaar.com/
- Category: Professional
- Summary: AI-assisted vendor management marketplace with RAG search, voice inventory, GPT assistants, and payments.

### FarmData2
- URL: https://github.com/FarmData2/FarmData2
- Category: Professional / Open Source
- Summary: NSF-funded farm management platform with Vue.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Cypress.

### Queue Up
- URL: https://queue-up.onrender.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Shahir-47/Queue-Up
- Category: Personal
- Summary: Spotify-based social matching app with Spring Boot, React, JWT auth, and WebSockets.

### CoSign
- URL: https://cosign-nwwl.onrender.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Shahir-47/CoSign
- Category: Personal
- Summary: Task accountability platform with verifier workflows, recurring tasks, encryption, and WebSockets.

### Albatross
- URL: https://albatross-hack.netlify.app/
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/albatross
- Category: Hackathon
- Summary: AI-powered safe navigation app built at HackHarvard using Vue.js, Cloudflare Workers, and Databricks.

### SweetFriend
- URL: https://sweet-friend.vercel.app/app/dashboard
- GitHub: https://github.com/dmicz/SweetFriend
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/sweetfriend
- Category: Hackathon
- Summary: Diabetes management app with Dexcom integration, meal recognition, Twilio alerts, and Flask/MongoDB backend.

### Prospectus
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/prospectus
- GitHub: https://github.com/HoyaHacks2024-Team
- Category: Hackathon
- Summary: AI-powered college admissions assistant (React, Django, Azure OpenAI, vector embeddings).

## Education & Certifications
- Dickinson College, B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics (Aug 2021 - May 2025), GPA 3.52.
- CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science (HarvardX).
- MATLAB Onramp (MathWorks).

## Skills
Programming: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, C, HTML5, CSS3  
Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS  
Backend/Data: Spring Boot, Node.js, Express, REST APIs, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase  
AI/ML: RAG pipelines, vector search, OpenAI Whisper, structured LLM outputs  
Cloud/Tooling: Stripe Connect, Cloudflare Workers, Databricks, Cypress, Docker, AWS S3, Vercel, Git, Linux

## Contact
- Email: shahir@shahirahmed.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahir47/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Shahir-47
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/Shahir-47
- Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXPdYbmQQVwjGAx_jBstJnJ54bNlm4Wf/view