Shad Ahmad is an experienced software/cloud release manager and technical project manager with over 20 years of experience. He has received strong recommendations from multiple former directors and managers who praise his technical skills, leadership abilities, passion for his work, and dedication to constantly improving build systems and processes. He is able to effectively lead teams and coordinate complex product releases.

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Shad Ahmad, SCPM, CSM
Experienced Software/Cloud Release Manager / Technical Project Manager
shadrahmad@yahoo.com
22 people have recommended Shad
"Shad worked for me at Adobe on the Flash Runtimes team and led Release Engineering. He is a dedicated
individual contributor as well as manager. He understands the needs of engineering teams and is able to
make technical decisions in a timely manner. He can effectively lead teams building new solutions as well
as maintain existing systems. Building code in a secure manner was always critical on the team and Shad led
numerous successful implementations that supported this requirement."
— Mike O'Brien, Director, Quality Engineering, Adobe, managed Shad at Adobe Systems Incorporated
"I worked with Shad at Adobe on the Flash Runtime Product. As the manager of the Release Engineering
team, Shad reported to my counterpart on the Quality assurance side; the Director of QA, while I was the
Director of Engineering. On several occasions I worked closely with Shad to coordinate releases. Shad
is passionate about his work, and strives to constantly improve the build system. He exhibited leadership
and worked effectively with various internal stakeholders on the Dev, QA, IT, Security, and other teams to
accomplish his work. He leads the release engineering team by example, is very hard working, and does what
it takes to get the job done. He led the release engineering of a very complex product, the Flash runtime, and
helped the team accelerate the release cycle to once a month, while improving the efficiency and the security
of our build system. Shad is versatile, and can take on QA, RelEng, TechOps, IT, leadership roles, and I
recommend him."
— Camille Batarekh, PhD, Director of Engineering, Adobe Systems, managed Shad indirectly at Adobe
Systems Incorporated
"Shad managed one of the most extreme build and release system for Acrobat and then for AIR, which
consisted of several build servers, and catered to dozens of development engineers and quality developers
worldwide. He currently manages a diverse team of release engineers and consultants who have helped set
up a secure and efficient production build system for Flash Runtime (Flash Player and AIR). The fruit of
his innovation is felt by over a billion computers and devices world wide. He is especially good at taking
large processes, and reducing and simplifying them in an elegant manner. The processes can consist of
people, teams, various stakeholders, and technical systems, and he can handle it all with excellence. I'd highly
recommend him for any type of management position, the guy is an all-star."

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— Amir Memon, Computer Scientist, Flash Player, Adobe Systems, worked directly with Shad at Adobe
Systems Incorporated
"I have worked with Shad for almost 5 years now. He has always been the go-to guy for any release
engineering work for Flash Runtimes, both when he was an individual contributor, and now when he
manages a great team. Because of sheer scale of Flash and AIR Runtimes in terms of platforms to support and
the intricate requirements, I think it provides one of the most challenging set of requirements to any release
engineer. And Shad has always done complete justice to them, building up a massive and yet flexible build
system. It has always been a pleasure working with him."
— Romil Mittal, Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, worked directly with Shad at Adobe Systems
Incorporated
"I worked with Shad in a number of different roles at Adobe, including both managing him directly and
watching him from afar when our paths diverged. Shad exhibited a graceful pairing of both technical
expertise and a focus on really understanding and solving customer problems. What really makes Shad stand
out to me, however, is his commitment to constant personal and professional growth. Despite having creating
an area of expertise and an critical role for himself, he never coasted. Instead, he worked to expand his skills,
which successfully allowed him to take on bigger, broader challenges, and to worth with teams to maximize
his impact."
— Ethan Malasky, Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, managed Shad at Adobe Systems, Incorporated
"I had the pleasure to work with Shad in the release of several products at Adobe, initially as a Release
Engineer and later on as an Engineering Release Manager. Shad has always shown a tremendous dedication
to the success of the product, by always being dedicated to the needs of the engineering organization. Shad
is always willing to put the extra effort needed to have builds and product releases on time in projects with
constraints in time and resources. As a Release Engineer, he was always on top of the health of the builds
that were critical to an efficient engineering organization to continue its work. As an Engineering Release
Manager, Shad led several initiatives to improve security in source control and build process in addition to
managing the release engineering of several complex products. Shad is a very seasoned and highly technical
individual who takes pride in continuous improvements for himself, his team and the work he does, and is an
impact team player in any organization he is part of."
— Jose Wong, Senior Quality Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, worked directly with Shad at Adobe
Systems, Incorporated
"Shad was and is a very proactive engineer who comes up with creative solutions to often difficult issues in
maintaining a large build system and build farm. Most of these machines he works on are Macintoshes. He
is very proficient on Mac and Windows too. Long before we had unix built in, Shad came up with creative
ways of having the machines respond to commands and automatically reboot if trouble arose. His expertise

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on the Macintosh is invaluable. He is also a key person when it comes to building the product CD! Shad is
a very positive person, and very high energy! He has consistently gotten good comments from those around
him. Great team player. Highly recommend."
— Greg Christopher, Manager, Acrobat Quality Solutions, AdobeUS, worked with Shad at Adobe Systems,
Incorporated
"I have worked with Shad for several years at Adobe. Shad is a bright engineer who is methodical and detail-
oriented. He is respected by his colleagues for his technical insights and his knowledge, particularly in release
engineering. I enjoy working with Shad."
— Muru Palaniappan, Project Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems, worked with Shad at
Adobe Systems Incorporated
"I worked with Shad at Adobe on the Flash Runtime Product. As the manager of the Release Engineering
team, Shad reported to my counterpart on the Quality assurance side; the Director of QA, while I was the
Director of Engineering. On several occasions I worked closely with Shad to coordinate releases. Shad
is passionate about his work, and strives to constantly improve the build system. He exhibited leadership
and worked effectively with various internal stakeholders on the Dev, QA, IT, Security, and other teams to
accomplish his work. He leads the release engineering team by example, is very hard working, and does what
it takes to get the job done. He led the release engineering of a very complex product, the Flash runtime, and
helped the team accelerate the release cycle to once a month, while improving the efficiency and the security
of our build system. Shad is versatile, and can take on QA, RelEng, TechOps, IT, leadership roles, and I
recommend him."
— Camille Batarekh, PhD, Director of Engineering, Adobe Systems, managed Shad indirectly at Adobe
Systems, Incorporated
"Shad has a great mind. The details he provides for server builds are always conspicuously exact. He's human
and reasonable, I'm glad to have him as a colleague."
— Daniel McSweeney, Lab Systems Engineer, Adobe Systems Inc, worked with Shad at Adobe Systems,
Incorporated
"I worked with Shad on Acrobat RE for over seven years. I saw him primarily as an determined and highly
motivated individual contributor, but he also acted as the manager of the RE work for first major dot release
with the new set of build tools that we worked on. Shad was always very hard-working, very efficient, and
very determined to get the job done. I also saw repeatedly that he was very good at reaching an expert level
of knowledge about any new tool or any required technical subject. He was our ultimate expert for Apple
products. His made our automation of the Apple CD production process the most comprehensive at Adobe.
Shad was very focused on constant improvement, always coming up with good ideas about how to improve

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tools and processes. He also was always excellent at keeping our "customers" happy. He was a very strong
member of a small and very productive team that worked together for many years."
— Tim Winkler, Manager Acrobat Release Engineering, Adobe Systems, Inc., managed Shad at Adobe
Systems
"Shad is extremely technical and is generally very much on top of the current technologies that are being
used in the company. As a release manager, he would be the first to find out ways to streamline and automate
build processes leaving very little overhead for the build engineers. He would proactively find solutions for
problems and improving processes. He had been very intrumental in many critical releases in our company.
Shad is also a great team player and works well with teams of any size. I would highly recommend Shad."
— Anamika Chadha, Senior Program Manager, Adobe Systems Inc, worked with Shad at Adobe Systems
"Shad is a very responsive co-worker who always carries the task through to completion. I've always
been impressed that he strives to understand all the details, not just the ones with which he is immediately
concerned. In doing work that supported my organization, he sought to understand the problems that we were
trying to solve so that he could tailor his solution to fit our needs exactly. I would welcome the opportunity to
work with him at any time in the future."
— Tim Gladden, Acrobat Installer Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, worked with Shad at Adobe
Systems
"I worked with Shad Ahmad for over six years on the release engineering team responsible for producing
Acrobat and the Adobe Reader. Foremost among Shad's accomplishments during that time was developing
a system to automatically make new versions of the product available for internal testing teams. He also
contributed considerably to the automated creation of installers and DVD generation. He produced reusable
code libraries and his work featured intricate error checking. Shad's contributions helped the Acrobat product
become a $600 million per year product by improving the reliability and integrity of our production systems."
— Ken Joye, Release Engineering Lead, Adobe Systems, worked directly with Shad at Adobe Systems
"Shad and I worked together for a non-profit orginazation - Ameen Co- Op of California (AHC). Shad and his
computer expertise was instrumental in getting the AHC books in order, and timely distributions of dividends
to the shareholders. Shad was a pleasure to work with, and I appreciated his knowledge and effort during my
1-2 years of being the Treasurer of AHC."
— MO Talha Serang, Manager, Bank of America, worked directly with Shad at Ameen Housing Co-op of
San Francisco Bay Area
"I recruited, hired, and managed Shad directly at UMAX Computer Corp. Shad was hired as the Installer
Engineer responsible for developing installer of the custom Mac OS Software System Reference releases

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that support the S900 and J700 SuperMac series by using Apple Installer tool. Shad was a very energetic,
dedicated, and diligent worker. He has excellent knowledge of Apple Installer tool, software deployment
methodology, and software localization techniques. I was very satisfied with his work and am glad to
recommend Shad to anyone in need of experienced SCM."
— Hiep Nguyen, Manager, Software Configuration Management, UMAX Computer, managed Shad at
UMAX Computer Corporation
"Shad Ahmad reported directly to me for a number of years at both Apple Computer and Umax Computer
Corporation. Mr. Ahmad was no doubt one of the best employees I ever had the privilege to work with. He is
talented, conscientious, proactive, hard working and pleasant to work with. Mr. Ahmad takes on projects and
assignments with enthusiasm, and deals with challenges very well. Mr. Ahmad is highly recommended for
any position for which he feels qualified"
— Len Holmquist, International Software Configuration Team Manager, Apple Computer, managed Shad at
UMAX Computer Corporation
"I worked with Shad Ahmad at AHC at a time when it was in its early phase. As VP, Shad took the lead on
many fronts and helped establish processes on the operations side managing the AHC consultants and staff.
He contributed significantly towards marketing activities of AHC for new members (potential home buyers
and investors). He led the efforts to develop the marketing collateral, in particular the logo redesign and
producing the flyers & brochures, amongst other things that were instrumental in forming and establishing a
positive image of AHC."
— Humayun Sohel, President, Questivity Inc, worked directly with Shad at Internet Commerce Solutions /
The Web Plaza.com
"Shad is the most motivated and passionate team player I've ever worked with. His very detailed oriented and
focussed on achieving his goals. It's a pleasure to be part of his team."
— Vaseem Anjum, Design Manager, NEC Electronics, worked directly with Shad at Internet Commerce
Solutions / The Web Plaza.com
"Shad is very detail-oriented and results driven. The position we held required the utmost attention to detail,
flexibility, and clear communication. Shad excelled in all of those areas. I have enjoyed working with Shad
over the years. He is an asset to his organization."
— Todd O'Connor, Software Configuration Management Engineer, Apple Computer, worked directly with
Shad at Apple Computer
"I worked with Shad Ahmad both at Apple and at UMAX Computer Corporation. Shad was consistently
effective not only in the work that he did on the important projects he was assigned, but in the ways he

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contributed to the team. Particularly at UMAX, he contributed ideas, experience, and an attitude that helped
the entire company. I would be happy to work with Shad again at any time."
— Jerry Nairn, Software Tools and Release Engineer, UMAX Computer Corporation, worked directly with
Shad at Apple Computer
"Shad was an excellent engineer. He was very good technically, as well as, having a great handle on the big
picture."
— Remi Adeyemo, SCM engineer, Apple, worked directly with Shad at Apple
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