Aaltan Ahmad
Software Engineer at Stripe
Software Engineer at Stripe
Currently working in Infrastructure Security at Stripe. I work across teams to help raise the bar for Security across our Engineering organization.

Always searching for ways to combine my engineering skills with socially productive causes.

I play the drums, and am doing a mediocre job of teaching myself the bass guitar. https://soundcloud.com/funk-yourself-1
Stripe
https://www.linkedin.com/company/stripe
Infrastructure Software Engineer at Stripe.

My responsibilities are to:

- Build critical secure-by-default internal infrastructure
- Drive infrastructure adoption across our Engineering organization
San Francisco Bay Area
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Software Engineer
Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/company/apple
Technologies: Objective-C, Swift, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, SQL, NoSQL

I've designed and implemented full stack, scalable, production systems for:
- Robust validation of all Apple software translation strings during the translation process
- Automated daily testing and analysis of iOS and Mac keyboard autocorrection across 50 languages and hundreds of unique test scenarios, using large corpuses of test data
- Automated detection and aggregation of text clippings in the iOS user interface

I've implemented production, customer facing features and bug fixes for our native platforms:
- iOS 8, iOS 9, iOS 11 (including UIKit, iOS System UI)
- macOS (including CoreFoundation)

I've acted as an Internationalization consultant on multiple projects, including:
- Right-to-left User Interfaces in iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS
- Swift Playgrounds "learn to code" app and curriculum
- General Internationalization fixes across our platforms
United States
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Software Engineer
Grinnell College
https://www.linkedin.com/company/grinnell-college
Create graphics to accompany the various articles that appear in the college newspaper every week.
United States
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Graphics Editor
Grinnell College
https://www.linkedin.com/company/grinnell-college
Resolve technology-related problems for students and faculty at the IT Helpdesk, typically malware, network and backup related issues. Also act as a mentor for new hires.
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Technology Consultant
Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/company/apple
Developed a Cocoa/Objective-C application to help OS X Software Engineers diagnose power and performance issues. The tool visualized system data in an interactive, user-friendly manner.
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Software Development Engineer Intern
Creative Chaos
https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-chaos
Using C#, integrated an existing timeclock system with our own solution to generate attendance reports for the HR department.
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Software Development Engineer Intern
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Computer Science
Grinnell College
Analysis Of Algorithms
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Combinatorics
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Compilers
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Data Structures
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Linear Algebra
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Object-Oriented Design
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Operating Systems
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Theory Of Computation
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Web Application Design
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Education
Grinnell College Liberal Arts In Prison
Volunteered at the Newton Correctional Facility in Newton, IA, tutoring inmates who were studying for the GED.
Math Tutor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-gateley-9b160457
San Francisco, CA
Kristy Gateley
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-deloach-72138153
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Evan Kay
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-merritt-07aa5522b
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Scott Merritt
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/zjmil
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Zach Miller
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-tran-350a98a9
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Allen Tran
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentine-ballantyne
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Sam Ballantyne
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/altan
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Altan Alpay
Software Engineer | Previously at Google, Uber, Facebook and Yahoo.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/podar
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenshi-kawaguchi-689288133
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Peter Raboud
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianosimone
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