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WaseemAhmad

Staff software engineer with 14 years shipping software at Google, Meta, and Nextdoor. These days it's mostly AI-driven development: building tools that ship production code.

› Android at scale› AI-driven development› Private pilot

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Background

About

01 / 05

I've lived in a lot of places, nine cities and counting. Each one shaped how I think about building things.

Miami, Houston, Boston, London, Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Austin, and now Seattle. I studied Computer Science at Rice University, lived at Brown College, and spent a semester abroad at UCL in London. My career started with research on collision avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles at Auburn University, followed by internships at Google in Boston and Meta in Menlo Park (where an intern project later became a US patent).

I joined Meta full-time and spent seven years growing from new grad to Staff Engineer. I shipped features on Facebook Search and News Feed in New York, helped lead a framework migration across 50+ engineers, spoke at Android @Scale, conducted 175+ technical interviews, and eventually built the Calling experience for Meta's AR/VR hardware in Seattle.

Now I'm at Nextdoor as a Staff Software Engineer on Feed UX, focused on AI-driven development. I build Claude Code commands and tooling adopted across the engineering org, and drive cross-platform product delivery as DRI. Most of what I ship these days goes through an AI-driven workflow.

On nights and weekends, I build voice AI agents that make real phone calls, integrate with Google Workspace, and run on their own. It's the corner of tech I find most interesting right now.

Outside of work, I'm a private pilot flying a Cirrus SR22, exploring new destinations and taking friends on scenic flights over Seattle.

Career

Experience

02 / 05

2026

Tribe AI

Jul 2026 – Present

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Seattle, Washington

2024

Nextdoor

Jun 2024 – Jul 2026

Staff Software Engineer

Feed UX (Android) · Seattle, WA

Led Android feature delivery across Feed UX, including cross-platform engineering leadership for 10+ A/B experiments, while advancing AI-driven Android development and modernizing testing and architecture across the codebase.

›Drove end-to-end delivery of Nextdoor's highest-impact product initiatives as cross-platform DRI, aligning iOS, Web, Backend, PM, Design, and Data Science across 10+ A/B experiments. Shipped the app-wide navigation redesign, NEXT feed overhaul, Mapbox-based neighborhood switcher, feed filters, and in-feed composer — driving lifts in Platform Active Days, Posts, Comments, and Ad Revenue.
›Pioneered AI-driven development for the Android org: built 20+ Claude Code skills, seeding an internal toolkit engineers grew to 65. Built an autonomous bug-fixing pipeline that closed 100+ user-facing bugs and reduced the bug backlog 30%+. Created pr-assets, a GitHub-native media pipeline widely adopted across the engineering organization.
›Led codebase-wide testing modernization: migrated ~370 test files from JUnit/Mockito to Kotest/MockK with custom lint rules holding the standard, and deleted 35k+ lines of legacy experiment code. Rearchitected comment filtering and ranking, the banner system, and a Jetpack Compose UI state framework with unidirectional data flow and optimistic updates.

2020

Meta (Reality Labs)

Dec 2020 – Jun 2023

Staff Software Engineer

AR/VR Calling · Seattle, WA

Helped lead Calling integration for an AR/VR consumer hardware product across 5 teams, 17 engineers, and 10 cross-functional partners.

›Built core call engine logic and a shared UI layer used across multiple call engines
›Contributed to architecture decisions and feature planning across teams
›Built analytics logging and worked with Data Science on product health and engagement metrics

2014

Meta (Facebook App)

Aug 2014 – Oct 2019

SWE → Senior → Staff Software Engineer

Search · News Feed · Stories · Menlo Park → New York, NY

Grew from new grad to Staff across three high-impact teams on the Facebook Android app.

›Helped lead the 2nd half of News Feed's Litho migration, working with 50+ engineers across dozens of teams
›Worked on the rewrite of News Feed to Litho, a React-style framework for multi-threaded UI rendering
›Led technical design of Birthday Stories; built an automated screenshot testing library
›Built trending topics, keyword search, video search, and dark theme support
›Spoke at Android @Scale 2018
›175+ technical interviews, Intern Director for 28 internships
›Designed and taught an Android Testing course for new hires for 3 years

2013

Meta (Intern)

Summer 2013

Software Engineering Intern

Payments Platform · Menlo Park, CA

Built a payment routing system matching users to optimal providers by country.

›US Patent #10496964: Payment routing system

2012

Google

Summer 2012

Software Engineering Intern in Test

QPX / Flight Search · Boston, MA

Built test dashboards and optimized server scripts for the engine powering Google Flight Search.

›Interactive dashboard aggregating smoke test data
›Optimized and parallelized server startup scripts for a 2x speedup

2020

Private Pilot

Nov 2020 – Present

Licensed Pilot · Cirrus SR22

General Aviation · Seattle, WA

Earned my private pilot license and fly a Cirrus SR22 through a partnership out of the Seattle area. Scenic flights, cross-country trips, and the best seat in the house.

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Projects

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AI Agent

Kaito

P-01

Waseem's AI assistant: a full-stack operator with persistent memory, GitHub access, Google Workspace integration, WhatsApp interface, voice, cron scheduling, and real-world follow-through.

AI AssistantNext.jsGitHubGoogle WorkspaceAutomation

Ren

P-02

Full-stack AI assistant with voice calling, Google Workspace integration, cron scheduling, and WhatsApp interface. Makes real phone calls, books reservations, and manages daily workflows autonomously.

OpenClawVAPIClaude AITwilioElevenLabs