Orchestrating AI agents
Agents in the loop. Numbers to prove it.
Orchestrating agents into delightful web experiences ✨
Senior Engineering Lead at vidIQ, Verified Expert in Engineering at Toptal. Cairo time, working across US and EU hours.
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The brief
Over a decade shipping web products, five years leading at vidIQ, and four years building production AI agents while orchestrating Claude Code and Codex in daily delivery.
Telemetry
Measured, not claimed.
- Growth from shipped features
- +250%
- Production AI agents
- 4yrs
- Shipping for the web
- 10+ yrs
- Orchestrating AI agents with Claude Code and Codex
- +250% growth from shipped features at Bilt
- AI agents in production since 2022
- A ChatGPT-style assistant over internal knowledge bases at Moss
- Senior Engineering Lead at vidIQ · 5 years
- Staff Software Engineer at Bilt
- A/B experiments for Netflix, Pepsi, Okta, CrowdStrike
- Verified Expert in Engineering at Toptal since 2021
- Over a decade in web engineering
The practice
Four disciplines, one delivery loop.
- 01
AI Agent Orchestration
At vidIQ, Claude Code and Codex are part of daily delivery, governed by shared instructions, reusable skills, MCP configuration, and review standards.
- Agent instructions, reusable skills, and MCP configuration
- Review standards for agent-authored changes
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Production AI Agents
AI agent features at vidIQ built with Claude and OpenAI APIs. At Moss, a ChatGPT-style assistant that answers from internal knowledge bases and runs task-specific skills.
- Claude and OpenAI APIs
- Knowledge-base retrieval and task-specific skills
- Streaming, SSO, and role-based access
- 03
Software Architecture
Systems designed end to end: React and Next.js front ends, Node APIs, and the data and integration layer behind them. Growth work and Core Web Vitals in the same mandate.
- Bilt: up to +250% growth, plus Core Web Vitals and technical SEO
- Moss: Next.js front end over knowledge-base APIs and databases
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Technical Leadership
Leading a team at vidIQ since 2021 — scope, timelines, review, and hiring.
- Scoping and delivery timelines set against business targets
- Code review, technical interviews, and mentoring
Where the work landed
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Direct means worked with them directly. Agency means experiments I built that ran on their site.
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vidIQ
— Present
Senior Engineering Lead
Scopes projects and sets delivery timelines against business targets
Bilt Technologies
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Staff Software Engineer
Up to +250% growth from features architected end to end
Moss
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Full-stack Lead Engineer
Built a ChatGPT-style assistant over several internal knowledge bases, with task-specific skills it could call on
RTIC
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Lead Front-end Engineer
Owned scope estimates and delivery timelines
Marketing Agency
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Senior Front-end Engineer
Built A/B tests that ran on enterprise client sites
What I work in
- Node.js
- AI Agents
- Technical Leadership
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Claude
- OpenAI
- Cursor
- Slack
Coverage
Your hours, and mine.
Cairo is where I sit. Dubai and New York are the hours I keep with clients and teams — Gulf mornings through the US East Coast afternoon.
- Cairo
- Where I sit
- Dubai
- Gulf hours
- New York
- US East Coast
- Passenger
- Ahmed Khaled
- Position
- Senior Engineering Lead
- Based
- Cairo, Egypt
- Local time
- Africa/Cairo
- Status
- Open to engineering leadership and staff-level roles.