Kamran Ahmed
Kamran Ahmed
Hands-on product and engineering leader

I’m strongest at building products end to end: figuring out what to build, designing it, engineering it, deploying it, and leading the team around it.

Now

I lead product and engineering at Insight Media Group across three properties used by millions:

I joined in 2022 when Insight Partners acquired roadmap.sh, then expanded to The New Stack and Towards Data Science in 2026.

Before that, I was a founding engineer twice, at and , with earlier engineering roles at Zalando and Al Tayer Group.

Almosafer Engineering Lead · 2015–19 Founding

Pre-launch hire. Built and scaled core platform services, then moved to Berlin to build a team. Watched it grow from a small startup into a multi-million-dollar business.

20 → 1000 people 0 → 40k orders / day
Tradeling Engineering Manager · 2019–21 Founding

Employee #3. Helped launch a B2B commerce platform in 3 months and scaled it to over a million products, leading the teams and initiatives that drove its growth.

3 → 250 people 1M+ products 100× conversion

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Recognition

Google Developer Expert GitHub Star 2nd globally by GitHub stars 250k YouTube subscribers Millions of views on Instagram

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