Bilal Ahmed started his career at Novell in 1996 right at the beginning of the internet bubble, developing Novell's web server (Java since 1996). He then moved to Formtek, a Lockheed Martin company which developed document management and work-flow solutions. Bilal lead middle-ware development for Formtek's backend systems. Bilal moved to Actuate, helping customer build enterprise reporting solutions. In 2005, Bilal started at hi5 as a very early engineer (developed photo image algorithms for the social network on 1st week) at the beginning of social networks bubble and built user facing features like photos, music, videos, mobile, friend multimedia cache system, viral and lead teams (gRails since 2008). He then moved on to work for bebo.com developing features while focusing on key viral, retention and engagement metrics. He is the founder of many websites, mytweetmark.com and homecook.me helping local businesses with mobile and twitter. He created the foundation and analytics layer for Saas Market using groovy on Rails. He managed a group of backend, frontend, native iphone and android developers to build mobile application for Wells Fargo business customers. He worked as technical co-founder at gearlaunch, building next generation of products and analytics. Bilal has written five books, three on yoga and two on startups/Venture capitalists.

Architect / Lead Engineer @ Building new generations of products for the bank in Java and rails. Thorough architecture analysis, database optimizations, configurations, job framework, testing, spring framework and stabilizing the product for future development and enhancements. Putting on multiple hats, grooming the team, solving difficult technical problems and guiding the team through grails issues. Working with a great technical, hands on team, hungry to learn new technologies and application development paradigms. The agile development has the team 24/7 between San Francisco and India. From October 2015 to Present (2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Engineering/Full Stack Developer @ Building the next generation platform on Rails. Building deep custom analytics to track campaigns, buying products and buyer analytics. Responsible for hiring the engineering team. Own the roadmap, timelines, features and product deliverables. The product feature includes API, analytics, white label, social, rails framework and open for mobile integrations. Build the initial PoC (proof of concept) in three days (analytics + rails framework). Building state of the art UX design and navigation features through backbone and underscore Javascript frameworks. Scrum master for the team, running best industry practice Agile methodology. Coding like a ninja as well as dealing with customers plus managing engineering hires and tasks. Deep SEO by creating technical blogs on technology and auto tweets through mytweetmark. Gaining huge amount of organic traffic. Build analytics funnel for individual designers that can burn advertising and watch the funnel conversion to purchase. The campaign payout spreadsheet is obtained through gearlaunch analytics. From November 2014 to April 2015 (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDevelopment Lead/Manager @ Ceomobile mobile application for Android and iPhone - Manage a team of senior developers, running like a basketball team where mix and match of talent is blended together. The group includes front end, back end and device developers to build next generation of mobile products for Wells Fargo business customers to do mobile banking. Manage Agile methodology, schedules, product initiatives, plan sprints and constant communication with business teams. Helped team release products on time, and provide technical guidance and advancement. Help turn engineers and project managers into leaders in their prospective areas. Own staffing plan for roadmap needs. Lead hiring and interviewing for engineering. Manage 10+ developers while reporting to 10+ business managers. The mobile app is build for Android and iOS platforms. CEO mobile app is available for business customers to take pictures of checks and do direct deposit, pictures of receipt and upload to credit card expense reporting, basic banking, wire transfer and many other features. Lead specialized PoC for image detections and check captures. Guided agile model and Raci matrix in the organization. Manage all product releases. From June 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco, CASystem Architect/Full Stack Developer @ Building new platform for Saas Markets using Grails framework. An online app store for small businesses. Consumers can buy apps. Also creation of white label app stores. Built and deployed analytics service for Saas markets data where each individual store and app can be tracked by pages, buttons and emails. The service is currently being offered to customers as a CPC program. Helping build up engineering team. Leading architecture for the new platform. From December 2012 to April 2013 (5 months) San Mateo, CAFounder/CEO/Full Stack Developer @ mytweetmark was founded in January 2010 by CEO/Founder, Bilal Ahmed. Social media advertising and spending is on the rise. mytweetmark utilizes advanced twitter techniques to market local businesses with tweets. Promote your local food business and farmers’ market with homecookme. We have proven growth in Northern California; signed up local businesses in over 150 farmers’ markets. The technology stack: Grails, Groovy on rails, Titanium mobile (iphone & android), postgres database, REST API, memcached & custom viral analytics. From January 2010 to December 2012 (3 years) Principal Engineer @ I lead the tracking team at bebo. I developed Microsoft Windows Live Integration to export address books via oauth. I worked on Invite re-factor and helped Bebo with import strategies for fast deployments and acceleration in importing address books. I developed viral dashboard which contains viral loop, viral factors and retention co-efficient, all using charts. The goal of the dashboard is to add tracking IDs to various pages and features, and track growth via A/B testing. I also designed the engagement dashboard where page views, transitions, uniques and time spent on products can be measured. From November 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 3 months) Senior Software Engineer @ I worked on tactical initiatives, registrations and importers with CTO/co-founder of hi5. I develop photo share product where users can share photos and albums, and ImageJ technology for image manipulation. Designed and co-lead team on music product where users can upload music tracks and search for music. Managed team on video share project where users can upload videos and view them by discussed, favorites, subscribed and rating popularity. Lead mobile solution where users can sign up to receive messages and comments through their phone. Build friend multimedia system where users photos, videos, music, group, journal, school and scrapbook streams are retrieved and displayed. Worked on release management, schedules, log analysis, crontab job management and profiling of hi5. Lead a team of 6 engineers in India to build various email importers. Build job management dashboard using Groovy on Grails technology. Worked on spam prevention. From October 2005 to October 2008 (3 years 1 month) Advanced Support Engineer @ Help customers with high priority deployment issues. Experience bringing Junior Engineers up to speed with Actuate products. Play the role of mentor to many engineers. Work actively on Actuate Web Forums to help customer resolve their issues. Work with web application server technologies that include Web Sphere, Web Logic, Tomcat, etc. Worked with Active Portal, a JSP and .NET based product for easy customization. Worked with JSP tag libraries. Worked with iServer and management console. Work with various reporting tools. The report designer products are eRD Pro (Actuate Basic designer), e.spreadsheet and Formula One (Java based Designer). The supported databases are Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, IBM DB2, Sybase, Informix, Progress, XML data source, etc. From January 2004 to October 2005 (1 year 10 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Created DocDomain: an Object-Oriented Java/CORBA implementation to Formtek: Orion enterprise content management system. The primary technologies used in building the product include Java, CORBA, JDBC and JNI. Responsible for architecture of document management services, single-login capability through multiple domains, and user services to control user/group/role access. Managed up to four engineers, involving project management, and lead architect for DocDomain. Built CITISolution, an application that utilizes JSP technology to communicate with DocDomain. Tag libraries are built to make the foundation of the application into reusable components. Some of the main features developed are online search capability (from front-end to back-end), multi-threaded JSP pages, setting favorites, installation application (Swing), product directory structure, schema caching, memory analysis, Install Shield, transaction rollback, etc. Major clients: F-22, F-16, Volvo, NASA, Mitsubishi. From December 1997 to December 2003 (6 years 1 month) Software Engineer @ Added CGI Interface APIs to the Web Server. Double-byte enabled the Web Server (for internationalization). Ported Perl5 to CGI extension for the Web Server with multi-threading capability. Design and implement multi-homing capability to the Web Server. Participate in implementing Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support for Web Server. Participate in implementing CGI APIs to be used by QuickFinder search engine for the Novell Web Server. Design Sun Microsystem's Servlet (Java) support for Novell Web Server. Design and implement directives for Web Server configuration. Participate in designing Novell Event Services to handle Novell Directory Services (NDS), LDAP and CORBA events. Responsible for benchmarking Novell Web Server. Responsible for regression tests for Novell Web Server. Write Test Plans and Test Specifications for testing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) APIs. Write Common Gateway Interface (CGI) C programs to test various APIs. From 1996 to 1997 (1 year)

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science @ Brigham Young University From 1992 to 1996 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology From 1991 to 1992 Bilal Ahmed is skilled in: XML, Perl, Software Development, JavaScript, Java, Tomcat, Databases, Web Development, Oracle, Integration, Mobile Devices, JSP, Start-ups, Microsoft SQL Server, Scalability, Ruby on Rails, Android, .NET, JDBC, Architecture, Early-stage Startups, Entrepreneurship, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, MySQL, SaaS, Hadoop, JSON, Ruby, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Management, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Linux, Leadership, PostgreSQL, Strategic Partnerships, Product Management, SEO, Software Engineering, Web Services, Distributed Systems, E-commerce, Testing, Unix, Strategy, HTML, Enterprise Software, User Experience