I'm Ahmed Ismail — a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Elixir, Phoenix & OTP. For five years I've shipped real-time platforms that treat failure as a design input: supervised, concurrent, and still up when it matters.
// live demo — a worker crashes, the supervisor restarts it, the system never blinks. That's how I build.
I'm Muhammad Ahmed Ismail — a Senior Software Engineer from Lahore, Pakistan, and I've spent 5+ years inside the Elixir / Phoenix ecosystem. The BEAM taught me a different way to think about software: don't prevent every failure — architect so failure doesn't matter.
That philosophy has shipped production platforms across cybersecurity, SaaS, logistics and education: threat-monitoring dashboards, photography business suites, freight-tracking systems and learning platforms with 120+ table schemas behind Absinthe GraphQL APIs.
I'm active on the Elixir Forum and Slack, contribute to open source, and spend free cycles helping new developers fall for Elixir's concurrency model.
BS Computer Science — FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, 2016 — 2020
Supervision trees, GenServer/GenStage flows and :one_for_one strategies — systems that heal themselves instead of paging you at 3am.
LiveView interfaces, Phoenix Channels and event-driven pipelines over Kafka and RabbitMQ — state that moves the moment the world does.
From PostgreSQL schema design and query optimization to the polished UI and the Docker/CI pipeline that ships it.
From associate to senior — leading architecture, mentoring engineers and keeping mission-critical systems alive.
Whether you need a new product built or an existing one made faster and more reliable — I cover the full lifecycle.
Take an idea from zero to a launched product — architecture, database, real-time features and a polished UI, all shipped to production.
Make slow, fragile apps fast and resilient. I use Elixir/OTP and the BEAM to handle concurrency and stay up under real load.
Plug in as a senior engineer who ships clean, maintainable code and lifts the whole codebase — not just my own tickets.
Supervise everything. Let it crash, restart cleanly, keep serving.
Proven tools for data and infra; novelty only where it pays off.
ExUnit, CI/CD and small reviewable changes keep shipping safe.
Mentoring and clear code so the whole team gets stronger.
Languages, frameworks, data stores and infrastructure — chosen for reliability, not résumé padding.
Real products serving real users — built primarily on the Elixir & Phoenix stack.
A comprehensive cybersecurity platform built on Phoenix, leveraging Elixir's fault-tolerant architecture for advanced threat detection, risk management and security monitoring.
[ok] Built real-time monitoring interfaces with LiveView that surface threats to security teams as they happen.
An all-in-one business management platform for photographers — client management, scheduling, invoicing and automated gallery delivery, from booking to final delivery.
[ok] Shipped booking, gallery and invoicing features used by professional photographers to run their day-to-day business.
A B2B platform connecting logistics providers with customers for freight booking and tracking — dynamic pricing, multi-tenant PostgreSQL schemas and real-time shipment tracking over WebSockets.
[ok] Spearheaded development end to end, from background-worker pricing engines to live tracking UIs.
A pan-African platform empowering entrepreneurs and managers with training and professional development. Maintained a large Elixir codebase with 120+ database tables and Absinthe GraphQL APIs.
[ok] Delivered learning experiences for a platform that trains entrepreneurs and managers across Africa.
I'm available for freelance work, contracts and full-time roles. Tell me what you're building — I usually reply within 24 hours.