Ali Ahmed

Software engineer building AI-powered products across fintech, full-stack systems, and developer tools. Interested in open source, applied ML, and turning complex problems into reliable software.

Joined on Nov 5, 2026

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

How to stop an LLM from inventing numbers: evidence containment and numeral tracing

#aiengineering #llms #hallucinations #evaluation

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Labels vs annotations: how one YAML indent made Prometheus scrape Pyroscope twice

#kubernetes #prometheus #helm #opensource

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Streaming LLM output through a Next.js proxy: why you only get stream_end

#nextjs #streaming #llms #webdev

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Real-time KYC card verification over MQTT: a pub-sub pipeline explained

#kyc #mqtt #distributedsystems #python

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

How I got my first pull request merged into LiteLLM

#opensource #aiengineering #llms

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

From 10 µm to 3 nm: how chips got so small (and why 3 nm isn't 3 nm)

#hardware #semiconductors

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

One phone number, two users: normalising WhatsApp sender IDs across Baileys and the Cloud API

#opensource #aiagents #database #whatsapp

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

What actually gets deployed to production? (Not your code)

#moderndeployments #cicd #devops

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Securing a voice AI agent's webhook: what my first version got right, and what I'd change

#aiagents #voiceai #security #node

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

How does Uber show cars moving in real time? A system design breakdown

#systemdesign #distributedsystems #geospatial

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Your app doesn't run on a server anymore. It runs on a desired state.

#moderndeployments #containers #kubernetes #cloud

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

What is a serverless cold start, really?

#moderndeployments #serverless #performance

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

How to build a secure MCP server with OAuth 2.1: lessons from a CRM connector

#aiengineering #mcp #oauth #security

4 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Why Node.js HTTP backpressure must count bytes, not string length

#node #opensource #performance #javascript

4 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Localhost is not authentication: fixing a CWE-306 webhook in an AI agent framework

#security #aiagents #opensource #node

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Why LLM cost dashboards lie when two deployments share a model name

#aiengineering #llms #opensource #finops

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

What's inside a GPU? Cores, streaming multiprocessors and the memory problem

#hardware #gpu #aiengineering

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Google Workspace vs Zoho Mail for a small startup: is the price gap worth it?

#startup #email #dns

2 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

How to see every AirPods battery on Linux, and why only one showed: LibrePods

#opensource #linux #android #bluetooth

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Nov 5

Your AI agent thinks its tasks were deleted: how to write tool errors for LLM agents

#aiagents #aiengineering #mcp #opensource

3 min read