About me
I’m Ahmad Alhour, a computer scientist by education and a software engineer by trade, currently living in Munich, Germany.
I like following systems all the way down: from slick product interfaces and reliable backends to infrastructure, networks and storage.
Previously, I led product engineering at Shopify, product & data engineering at TrustYou, built global data infrastructure at HubSpot, and co-founded Vamu, a cybersecurity startup (exited).
This is my digital spot where I write about software, books, philosophy, and whatever else I’m currently curious about. I also publish hacks, tinkers, and side projects I’ve built over the years… mostly for fun, and rarely for profit.
I build interactive animations when words need a moving picture, publish some of my talks, and sometimes lose myself in mathematical puzzles.
When I’m not building or debugging things, I’m usually reading something. Recent favorites include The Beginning of Infinity, The Optimistic Child, and What If?… which is probably a fair summary of my reading taste: scientific explanation, parenting, and ridiculous hypotheticals! You can find more of that trail on my Goodreads.