Ahmed Tarek
Ahmed Tarek
CTO of Plural.com. Computer Scientist focused on AI/ML, scalable systems, open-source infrastructure, and developer tooling. Maintainer of widely used auth & payments libraries (apple-signin-auth, react-apple-signin-auth) and contributor to AI tooling.
Projects
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apple-signin-auth (Node.js)
Server-side Node.js library implementing Sign in with Apple (authentication + token verification). Community standard for Apple Sign-In on Node backends (self-reported wide adoption).
react-apple-signin-auth
React frontend integration for Sign in with Apple using the official Apple JS SDK. Widely used in React apps (maintained by Ahmed's GitHub account).
react-native-stripe-checkout-webview / Stripe React Native integrations
React Native implementations for Stripe Checkout/Identity flows to enable Stripe.js-based payment and identity flows inside RN apps; referenced as an early de-facto standard integration for RN.
Audify AI / Text-to-Speech projects
Open-source TTS / AI experiments (text-to-speech converter) and small AI tooling projects featured on personal projects page.
AI Zero-Shot Classifier and embedding-based tooling
Open-source tools leveraging embeddings for multilingual zero-shot text classification and other AI/embedding experiments (hosted on GitHub).
In the Spotlight
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Recognitions
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Open-source adoption — apple-signin-auth (self-reported)
Self-reported (resume)Self-reported metrics on personal resume: apple-signin-auth Node.js library with 3M+ downloads and adoption in 400+ open source projects.
Open-source adoption — react-apple-signin-auth (self-reported)
Self-reported (resume)Self-reported metrics: react-apple-signin-auth with 2M+ downloads and adoption in 500+ projects (as listed on public resume/projects page).
Prominent open-source maintainer (GitHub: a-tokyo)
OngoingMaintainer with multiple widely used JavaScript/React/React Native libraries, visible GitHub activity and sponsorship page.
Work Experience
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CTO
Sets technical roadmap, leads engineering, introduced scalable pipelines, AI tooling, and scaled engineering team. Based in Palo Alto; role listed on LinkedIn and resume.
VP of Engineering (listed on LinkedIn)
LinkedIn lists Humanform in experience section. Public LinkedIn entries reference Humanform; details are available on LinkedIn profile.
Senior Software Engineer & earlier engineering roles
Multiple prior roles as a senior software engineer, full-stack engineer, and engineering lead across web, mobile, and AI projects (details on resume).
Education
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Studies (listed on LinkedIn)
Socials
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