About Me
Ahmed Dirie is a Web Application Developer in Ottawa who spends his day converting caffeine into code. He works with CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, SOAP, XML and builds custom CMS solutions and e-commerce platforms. He develops custom modules that are deployed on existing CMS frameworks, Drupal, WordPress, and integrates sites with analytics, payment gateways, reporting tools, and service providers such as Marketo and Salesforce.
After studying at IADT (International Academy of Design and Technology), he’s worked as a freelance multimedia designer and his clientele included private companies, government, NGOs and professional athletes and his work was showcased on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada.
Ahmed Dirie studied Network Technology at Carleton University and has a background in network design and administration with Cisco routers and Vyatta routers. He’s written about virtualizing Cisco and Vyatta routers on the Amazon cloud.
He co-founded a software startup with friends, Pick Yours Up, and through it has taught himself Unix server configuration and management, and specializes on security and LAMP stacks on CentOS, RedHat, and Ubuntu.
When he’s not doing anything tech related, he’s a blogger, a photographer and a spoken word poet.
How to get in touch with me
I found that the easiest way to get in touch with me is through email or twitter.
Email: contact@ahmeddirie.com
Twitter: @ahmeddirie
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