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About Ahmed Abdullah

Engineer who treats software like a craft.

Ahmed Abdullah portrait
Tempe, Arizona2026

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.

  1. Mar 2024 — Now

    Software Engineer

    Arizona State University, Technology

    Building internal tools and student-facing systems used by thousands of students each semester.

  2. 2025 — Now

    Founder & Engineer

    LedgerEz

    Designing and shipping a personal-finance app from zero — Swift, Plaid, ML categorization, AI assistant.

  3. 2024 — Now

    CS Student

    Arizona State University

    B.S. Computer Science, Fulton Schools of Engineering. Coursework in algorithms, systems, ML.

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