About Ahmed Abdullah
Engineer who treats software like a craft.

I'm a Computer Science student at Arizona State and a full-time builder. I started writing software because I wanted to understand how things actually work — and I've been chasing that thread ever since.
These days most of my time goes to LedgerEz, a personal-finance app I'm building end-to-end — design, iOS, ML categorization, and a chat layer over your real accounts. The rest of the week splits between coursework, side experiments in autonomy and robotics, and the occasional obsession with type and color.
I care about products that earn their place. Software that feels considered, that respects your attention, and that does one specific thing better than anything else.
How I work
Four ideas
I keep returning to.
- 01
Ship the smallest thing that works.
Real users teach you faster than any whiteboard. Get something into hands within days, not months.
- 02
Design is the engineering.
A clean interface forces a clean model. If the UI is a mess, the data underneath probably is too.
- 03
Boring tech, ambitious product.
Reach for proven tools when the problem is unproven. Spend your novelty budget where it counts.
- 04
Read the bill before you ship.
Latency, cost, and complexity always come due. Pay them down on purpose, not by accident.
Stack
What I reach for.
Comfort > novelty. I pick tools that let me ship something real this week.
Languages
- ·Swift
- ·TypeScript
- ·Python
- ·Java
- ·C++
- ·SQL
Frameworks
- ·SwiftUI
- ·Next.js
- ·React
- ·Node
- ·TensorFlow
- ·PyTorch
Tools
- ·Plaid
- ·Firebase
- ·Postgres
- ·Figma
- ·Three.js
- ·Git
Currently learning
- ·Rust
- ·CUDA
- ·Distributed systems
- ·Agentic AI
Experience
What I've been up to.
- Mar 2024 — Now
Software Engineer
Arizona State University, Technology
Building internal tools and student-facing systems used by thousands of students each semester.
- 2025 — Now
Founder & Engineer
LedgerEz
Designing and shipping a personal-finance app from zero — Swift, Plaid, ML categorization, AI assistant.
- 2024 — Now
CS Student
Arizona State University
B.S. Computer Science, Fulton Schools of Engineering. Coursework in algorithms, systems, ML.
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