Ahmed Khaled
Senior Engineering Lead · vidIQ · Toptal Verified Expert
Senior Engineering Lead at vidIQ since 2021 and former Staff Software Engineer at Bilt, where features architected end to end drove up to +250% growth. Over a decade in web engineering, including two years building production AI agents with Claude and OpenAI APIs and orchestrating Claude Code and Codex in daily delivery.
Core expertise
- AI Agent Orchestration · 2 yrs
- Technical Leadership · 3 yrs
- Next.js · 5 yrs
- React · 7 yrs
- TypeScript · 8 yrs
- Node.js · 9 yrs
- JavaScript · 10+ yrs
Experience
Senior Engineering Lead · vidIQ
– Present
- Scopes projects and sets delivery timelines against business targets
- Builds AI agent features with Claude and OpenAI APIs
- Orchestrates Claude Code and Codex in daily engineering delivery
- Leads design discussions and code reviews
- Runs technical interviews and grew the engineering team
- Ships A/B experiments
AI Agents · Claude · OpenAI API · Claude Code · Codex · MCP · React · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · Redux · Jest · A/B Testing · Sanity Studio · AWS · Cloudflare
Staff Software Engineer · Bilt Technologies
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- Up to +250% growth from features architected end to end
- Page speed, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO
TypeScript · React · Next.js · Vercel · Material UI · Mapbox · Claude · AI Agents · OpenAI Assistants API
Full-stack Lead Engineer · Moss
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- 20% faster API responses from a new Node.js/Express back end
- Led a ChatGPT-like assistant spanning several internal knowledge bases
- Designed the front-end architecture in Next.js
- Integrated third-party knowledge-base APIs and databases
- Hardened access with SSO and role-based permissions
React · Next.js · Node.js · TypeScript · Express.js · Zustand · OpenAI API · Streaming · AWS · Azure
Lead Front-end Engineer · RTIC
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- Owned scope estimates and delivery timelines
- Led design discussions and code reviews
- Built the storefront front end in React and TypeScript
React · TypeScript · JavaScript · Redux · Tailwind CSS · Jest · AWS · Vercel · Google Analytics
Senior Front-end Engineer · Marketing Agency
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- Built A/B tests that ran on enterprise client sites
- Verified every experiment across device and viewport variants
- Tracked, fixed, and reported bugs
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery · React · A/B Testing · Google Analytics
Senior Full-stack Developer · Eagle Car Rental
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- Shipped every module: fleet state, bookings, payments, employee records, maintenance
- Tuned database queries and removed front-end interaction lag
- Implemented security measures for user data
- Added unit tests across the codebase
JavaScript · TypeScript · Node.js · React · Redux · MongoDB · Express.js · REST APIs · Bootstrap
Senior Front-end Developer · Spiralyze
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- Up to +150% more leads from the A/B test program
- Shipped variants without touching the client's source code
- Implemented supplied designs from Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch
- Tracked and fixed QA-detected bugs in Asana
CSS · JavaScript · React · Redux · TypeScript · A/B Testing · Optimizely · Google Optimize · REST APIs
Software Engineer · Freelance
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- Shipped systems serving millions of daily users
- Up to +50% conversion from A/B tests
- Implemented application-security measures for client data
- Mentored junior developers
Node.js · React · Next.js · Express.js · MongoDB · SQL · GraphQL · Apollo · Shopify · WordPress · ASP.NET MVC · Angular
Technical skills
- AI
- AI Agent Orchestration, AI Agents, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI API, OpenAI Assistants API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Large Language Models, ChatGPT
- Frameworks
- Next.js, React Native, Express.js, Redux, Tailwind CSS, Jest, Material UI, Bootstrap, Angular, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, Hapi.js, Swagger, Ionic, JSON Web Tokens
- Libraries & APIs
- React, Node.js, React Query, React Router, Socket.IO, jQuery, REST APIs, Web API, Google APIs, Google Maps API, React Apollo
- Leadership
- Technical Leadership, Team Leadership, Leadership, Full-stack Development, Front-end Development, Content Management Systems
- Practices
- Web Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, SEO, A/B Testing, Server-side Rendering, SSG, Serverless, Caching, API Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Design, Security, Unit Testing, Responsive UI, Analytics, MERN Stack, Web Extensions, eCommerce
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Sass, Less, SQL, GraphQL, Python, C#, PHP, Scala
- Platforms
- Vercel, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Azure, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Shopify, WordPress, Sanity Studio, Mapbox, VWO
- Storage
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, Amazon S3
- Tools
- Git, Figma, Webpack, Optimizely, Google Optimize, Google Analytics, Jira, Asana, Slack, Redux Thunk
Selected projects
GeidID · geidid.com
A personality product I build and run end to end: a 90-second quiz, then an AI-crafted reading of the pattern behind the answers. Design, front end, model prompting, and infrastructure.
Next.js · TypeScript · LLM APIs · Vercel
Stock & Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
Co-developed the front end and back end for a trading platform serving millions of daily users.
React · Node.js · TypeScript · WebSockets · PostgreSQL
Eagle Car Rental: Internal Platform
Internal web application covering fleet state, bookings, earnings, payments, employee records, maintenance reminders, and customer profiles.
React · Redux · Node.js · Express.js · MongoDB
Toptal JavaScript Speed Coding Challenge
Competed in Toptal's 2021 JavaScript speed-coding challenge.
JavaScript · Algorithms · Problem Solving
Education
BSc Computer Science
University of Wales · Cardiff, Wales, UK
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Certified Diploma in Web Development
Russian Cultural Center · Cairo, Egypt
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Certifications
- Microsoft Certified Diploma: Web Development · Microsoft (via Computek Learning Center)
- Web Development (Full Course) · Udemy