Ahnaf Prio

“Ahnaf and I worked together at the beginning of his career, and I was impressed by how quickly he was able to learn and respond to the needs of the business. He soon became proficient in all aspects of development, including front-end, back-end, DevOps, and monitoring. In a short period, he assumed a lead role in developing our mobile app, providing technical guidance, and acting as a liaison to the business. His communication skills, natural understanding of business strategy, and technical expertise would make him an invaluable asset in any engineering or management role.”

“Ahnaf is a rockstar! He is always hungry for challenges that’ll test not just his abilities but also of those that work in his team. He keeps conversations engaging, fun and fruitful at the same time. There wont be any dull moment with him in conference calls. Whether its about implementing kubernettes or about cooking biryani, he brings fun and engaging discussions that people enjoy. Most importantly, he gets work done gets a lot of praise along the way. He is a relationship builder and anybody should be lucky to have him on their team”

“Ahnaf is a developer on a team that supports a business initiative I lead. I appreciate Ahnaf's creativity, energy, and collaboration. He consistently brings new ideas to the table, and helps break down big conceptual ideas into workable building blocks. He inspires our whole team by hard work and a great sense of humor. Thanks, Ahnaf!”

“Ahnaf is an extremely skilled, get it done guy! He does a great job with mobile apps.”

“I have had the pleasure of working daily with Ahnaf while he has been an Engineering Consultant at Securian Financial. He is a full-stack developer on the agile team where I am a Product Owner. From the beginning of his engagement until now, Ahnaf continues to impress me with his desire to learn, drive to innovate, and and teambuilding skills. Ahnaf has learned a lot very quickly, both in terms of understanding the business and customers as well as expanding his technical skills and knowledge. When the team determined that we wanted to understand whether a mobile app would be well received, Ahnaf suggested we build a manifest and did the development single handedly. Thousands of customers used the manifest and confirmed that a mobile app would be beneficial. Another example of Ahnaf being willing to step up and take the lead is when we decided to work with a third party vendor to build a mobile app wrapper. Ahnaf volunteered to be the person on our team that handled all of the interactions with the other team and ensure that the mobile app development was successful. On a regular basis, Ahnaf goes above and beyond to learn new things and work hard to develop new features. When we first launched our website, Ahnaf learned all about our vendor tool, Dynatrace. He implemented all of the tracking to ensure that the team was notified of any production issues before a customer called to report them. I would be remiss if I didn't mention Ahnaf's team building abilities. He has a personal relationship with every person on the team. Ahnaf is regularly organizing activities to boost the morale of the team, such as our own Dundy awards, a meme contest, and regular virtual happy hours. I'm grateful that Ahnaf has been a part of this team, and he'd be a great addition anywhere. His willingness to learn, drive to innovation, and exceptional team member skills would be an asset anywhere.”

“Ahnaf is an excellent team player with strong appetite for learning and solving whatever coding problem may come his way. His engagement as a Software Engineering intern at MyMeds turned out to be a great win for both MyMeds and Ahnaf. I'm happy to have gotten to hire him in this position, and I know that the rest of the team feels the same way. I wish the very best to Ahnaf in growing his career as a talented, hardworking software engineering professional and beyond.”

“Ahnaf has been an important team member in the Office of Sustainability. His overall computer science background has been critical in helping our team advance some complicated projects related to energy-monitoring on campus. Ahnaf is able to work as an effective team member -- and is also able to operate independently to advance projects. His work has included making connections with other software developers across the University of Minnesota-system. Ahnaf has an ability to explain to team members who are not as “software savvy” what he is doing and what needs to be done. Overall, I appreciate Ahnaf’s can-do-attitude, ambition, and work ethic. I think he would make a great addition to any development team -- and company. I worked in high-tech start-up companies for a decade and Ahnaf is the kind of person I want on my team.”

“Ahnaf has been a great addition to the team during his internship. He had genuine interest in how the business was running and was happy to collaborate with various teams to achieve our goals. He even went further to run cost analysis and propose cost reduction which was very helpful for a small company with limited capital. ”

“I've worked with Ahnaf in a variety of settings, and he has shown a great combination of enthusiasm and skill that would make him a valuable asset to a software development team. I've had Ahnaf in several of my classes, including Software Design and Development, where Ahnaf worked on teams of up to 8 students on a large project over several months for a real customer. Ahnaf's energy and initiative was extremely valuable and played a major role in the group's success. Ahnaf is a boundless source of ideas, one of which is likely to become the project and customer for an upcoming Software Design and Development project. He's been out identifying stakeholders, pitching the idea at meetings, and bringing people together, entirely on a volunteer basis. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies (mostly webdev) and agile methodologies and tools, and would be a strong choice as a web developer now, and will likely make a great team lead in the future.”