Stockholm · open to interesting problems

Mohammad
Ahtasham

Senior software engineer building payment infrastructure and distributed systems. Currently at Greenely, previously edX / 2U and Arbisoft.

uptime
7y+ shipping
stack
python · django · aws
focus
payments · distsys
writing about.md
Mohammad Ahtasham
// stockholm · 2026

Senior software engineer in Stockholm. Seven years of shipping backend systems and customer-facing platforms — EdTech, now Energy.

Currently at Greenely, where I own backend evolution of the retail/foundations product domain. Before that, four years on the edX / 2U marketplace re-platform, leading payments architecture, OSS contributions, and platform modernization.

I gravitate toward problems that sit between distributed systems, payments, and product engineering — places where backend judgment shapes the customer experience. Reliable async pipelines, observable systems, clean integration boundaries.

Outside of tech, I'm into board games, badminton, and hikes.

3 roles work.json
  1. Greenely

    Backend Developer · Stockholm, SE

    current Mar 2025 — present

    Backend ownership of Greenely's retail product domain/foundations team and multi-market platform — energy-tech in Stockholm.

    • Led a key technical role in the expansion into Finland, the first European expansion. Transitioned country-specific implementations into a scalable multi-market architecture.
    • Redesigned customer lifecycle journeys for scalability and maintainability across regions.
    • Designed and shipped device monetization flows — customers buying hardware directly through the app, opening a new revenue line.
    • Defined engineering requirements, integration standards, and onboarding processes for third-party retail partners; cut integration friction with product, ops, and external teams.
    • Automated growth and operations workflows through Typeform, Intercom, and internal-tool integrations.
    • Built async pipelines for large-scale time-series consumption data.

    python · django · aws · postgres · async · integrations

  2. Arbisoft on edX / 2U

    Senior Software Engineer · Lahore, PK (remote)

    Jul 2021 — Mar 2025

    3.5 years on the edX / 2U marketplace re-platform — payments architecture, OSS contribution, platform modernization. Grew from SWE to Senior SWE.

    • Spearheaded the integration of Stripe, PayPal, and wallets across edX's marketplace revamp.
    • Proposed a payments architecture with 3DS authentication that eliminated extra backend calls, webhooks, and third-party redirects — reduced cost and lifted checkout conversion.
    • Advocated for plugin-app architecture for openedX — separating business-specific code from the open-source core for security and compliance.
    • Led major version upgrades for Django, Python, Node and surrounding dependencies; spearheaded containerization and phased out legacy Ansible playbooks.
    • Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker; integrated DataDog and Splunk for monitoring, logging, and alerting.
    • Mentored junior engineers, ran code reviews for OSS contributors, and led client-facing technical discussions across teams in the US, UK, India, and South Africa.

    python · django · node · react · stripe · paypal · commercetools · datadog · splunk · docker

  3. Datalatics

    Software Engineer · Lahore, PK

    Dec 2020 — Jul 2021

    Early-career full-stack work across multiple ongoing projects.

    • Built real-time Socket.io communication for the DeenFund app.
    • Contributed to backend development for the ARZ web application.

    node · socket.io · backend

// in parallel since 2019: independent consulting on Upwork — ML, web, and Android R&D engagements.

stable stack.yaml
skills
Stakeholder Management Product Engineering
languages
Python JavaScript SQL
backend
Django DRF Celery Node.js
frontend
React Next.js HTML / CSS
data
PostgreSQL time-series
cloud · infra
AWS Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Docker GitHub Actions
observability
DataDog Splunk LGTM Metabase
payments
Stripe PayPal Wallets 3DS Commercetools
platforms
Frontastic OneTrust Socket.io Intercom Typeform