Syed Faheel Ahmad

Lead Backend Engineer · Platform & AI Builder

Hi, I'm Faheel

I build backend systems that stay reliable as products grow—across high-throughput APIs, event-driven services, multi-cloud infrastructure, and production AI like RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and MCP servers.

About me ↓ Resume ↗
Portrait of Syed Faheel Ahmad

Career experience

8+ years building production systems

Lead Software Engineer · RiskProfiler ↗

Leading a 10-engineer backend team on a cloud-security platform handling 5M+ API requests and 10M+ cloud asset scans each month. Shipping production AI—RAG pipelines, Google ADK agents, and an MCP server—alongside the reliability, security hardening, and cost work that keeps it dependable.

Selected impact
10M+ scans per month Security Scanning Platform
80% manual effort reduced Gemini + RAG questionnaire automation
$50K+ annual cloud savings AWS cloud cost optimization
5→10 team members Scaled and managed the backend team

Senior Software Engineer · Animall ↗

Built and operated high-throughput APIs, real-time marketplace infrastructure, ML orchestration, logistics automation, and internal platforms. Delivered measurable gains across latency, infrastructure cost, daily operations, and most importantly user experience.

Selected impact
1B+ requests per month High-Throughput API Platform
$10K+ annual infrastructure savings JWT authentication re-architecture
3K+ model runs per day ML orchestration platform
50x VPN capacity increase OpenVPN to Tailscale migration

Software Developer · EthicalHat ↗

Delivered full-stack and serverless security products across AWS services, Django platforms, and event-driven systems—including the Controls Self-Assessment Tool (CSAT) for the Center for Internet Security (CIS).

Selected impact
250M+ domains scanned Elasticsearch security workflows
15x faster front-end deploys Amplify to S3 + CloudFront migration
4x faster service deploys Microservice dependency resolution

Work projects

9 selected projects
01
AI / LLM

RAG Questionnaire Automation

RiskProfiler

80% less manual effort by auto-filling security questionnaires with a production RAG pipeline.

Gemini · Vertex AI · RAG
02
AI AGENTS

Security Findings Agents

RiskProfiler

Tool-calling agents that triage, summarize, and prioritize security findings, and correlate scan data into structured attack paths.

Google ADK · Gemini
03
AI INTEGRATIONS

Attack-Surface MCP Server

RiskProfiler

Exposes the platform's REST API over MCP so users can query their attack surface from any AI client.

MCP · REST API
04
PLATFORM ENGINEERING

High-Throughput API Platform

Animall

1B+ requests per month with lower latency and improved production reliability.

TypeScript · NestJS · FastAPI · MySQL
05
CLOUD SECURITY

Distributed Scanning Platform

RiskProfiler

10M+ cloud asset scans per month on serverless data pipelines with high availability.

Python · Go · AWS · GCP
06
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

ML Orchestration Platform

Animall

3K+ ML model runs per day through production Airflow and Kubernetes pipelines.

Python · Airflow · Kubernetes
07
MARKETPLACE SYSTEMS

Real-Time Hyperlocal Feed

Animall

Millisecond latency over millions of documents using MongoDB aggregation pipelines.

Node.js · MongoDB · Redis · Geohash
08
OPERATIONS SYSTEMS

Logistics Allocation Engine

Animall

60+ hours saved per day through automated vehicle allocation and route planning.

Node.js · VROOM · GraphHopper
09
INTERNAL PLATFORMS

No-Code Notification Platform

Animall

10% engineering capacity freed by enabling campaigns without developer support.

Node.js · Strapi · PostgreSQL

Open source

6 selected projects
01
ALGORITHMS

ProAlgos

GitHub ↗

A widely starred collection of quality algorithm implementations following modern C++ practices.

C++ · Catch
02
CORE LIBRARY

BigInt

GitHub ↗

An arbitrary-sized integer library built for practical usage, learning, and dependable behavior.

C++ · Catch
03
DESKTOP TOOLING

Desktop Entry Creator

GitHub ↗

A graphical utility for creating Linux desktop entries for installed applications.

Python · GTK
04
DEVELOPER TOOLING

Cleanup

GitHub ↗

A command-line file organizer that automates directory cleanup with predictable behavior.

Python
05
LANGUAGE DESIGN

Flex

GitHub ↗

A natural-language-inspired programming language and transpiler experiment.

Python · Rasa NLU
06
CLOUD OBSERVABILITY

CloudFrontier

GitHub ↗

A self-hosted application for monitoring public-cloud internet attack surfaces.

Python · Vue.js · Cloud SDKs

Apps & games

1 Android app · 2 websites
01
Contour Quest app icon
PUZZLE

Contour Quest

Google Play ↗

Some objects look oddly like countries. A leaf might look like Sri Lanka, a crumpled T-shirt like Australia. Contour Quest turns that into a game: photograph an object, trace its outline, and compare it against 200 simplified country shapes.

Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · CameraX
02
REAL ESTATE MAP

Bangalore Housing Projects

blr-housing.faheel.in ↗

An interactive map of Bangalore housing projects, colour-coded by land value, with filters for availability, category, stage, bedrooms, developer, and more.

HTML · CSS · Leaflet
03
BROWSER GAMES

Games by Faheel

games.faheel.in ↗

A growing collection of no-fuss games that run straight in the browser, with nothing to install and no account needed. Five so far: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, SOS, Hangman, Dots and Boxes, and Cows and Bulls.

HTML · CSS · Vanilla JS