Namir Ahmed | Portfolio & Blog

Developing high-volume enterprise tax platforms and interconnected applications.

• Played a key role in developing a React/Laravel customer-facing platform for onboarding, secure document handling, role-based access control, and 2FA, integrating with an internal system to support workflows for 50+ tax practitioners.
• Implemented full stack features across internal and external apps, ensuring reliable data handling, including background jobs and queues, GraphQL reporting, and third-party API integrations such as AWS S3, AWS SES, and Microsoft Graph API.
• Contributed to enterprise modernization by migrating internal tools from CodeIgniter to Laravel, rewriting controllers, models, and database logic to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability of a critical tax compliance platform.

Contributed to enterprise financial software solutions for banking clients.

• Improved an enterprise application for internal users to provide 1.8 million customers with a wide variety of financial services by utilizing advanced JavaScript algorithms, Java, JavaServer Pages, and XML, for optimal scalability.
• Trained by FIS on Systematics. Utilized knowledge to conduct IFX transactions linked to a Mainframe and ESL transactions formatted using XSL templates linked to an Oracle database with over 4000 tables.
• Part of Systematics Application Support and assigned to the Bank of the West account during the Bank of Montreal merger, in which I provided enhancements to a codebase with over 9500 source files.

Led digital transformation and infrastructure management.

• Increased customer retention by over 37% during the COVID-19 pandemic - a challenging period in the transportation industry by designing and developing an entirely new services-based website.
• Spearheaded initiative of a new website from the ground up including development and design, migrating to a new secure hosting solution, updating payment systems, and researching for a new efficient transportation booking system.
• Single-handedly managed technical infrastructure that involved establishing a new company server and embracing better security practices for company computer systems and networks.