Ismail Ahmed

• Diagnosed production issues with a Kubernetes pod for search engine service, enhancing service stability
• Extended RESTful API of vector search service to support document exclusions in Neo4j queries
• Led migration of key functionality of agentic RAG service to Sglang framework, improving code maintainability
• Refactored code to remove LangChain dependency, boosting chat completion speeds by 66%

• Designed and developed a Python microservice using FastAPI for a full-stack academic research platform
• Implemented RAG functionality with LangChain and asynchronous LLM output validation system using asyncio to improve quality of responses
• Developed document sharing system by designing Pydantic models for DB schema and API endpoints in Typescript

• Developed React and Flask graph visualizer for hardware configurations for cosmological experiments
• Containerized frontend and backend with Docker and Docker Compose for streamlined testing and deployment

Operations

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to deliver a critical PLX compiler patch on $z/OS$ for client development
• Investigated and fixed Linux environment issues in compiler build workflows for C++ and COBOL in under 1 hour

Infrastructure

• Led construction of Grafana dashboard with Prometheus, deployed via Docker, to monitor Jenkins infrastructure memory and CPU usage
• Provisioned Linux machines and Bash scripts to add 50+ tests for a COBOL compiler backend for x86
• Rebuilt a pipeline in Jenkins to automate an installation process, reducing pipeline completion time by 10%
• Managed several Linux servers and wrote Systemd services and cron jobs to facilitate hosting of internal web apps

Development

• Implemented multithreaded tests in C++ for internal CI web app to improve code coverage by 12%
• Maintained a React and Flask application to make investigating compiler build issues seamless for new hires