Ahmed KhanApplied AI Leader & Tech Innovator

Ahmed Khan is a NASA award-winning software executive, CTO, and engineering innovator with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation and software leadership. As a co-founder and CTO, he has recently built AI-driven SaaS solutions and led digital transformation initiatives across startups and enterprises in retail, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and other industries.

His journey includes being recognized with a NASA Public Achievement Medal (2012) for software innovation and serving as a Space Shuttle/Space Station Flight Controller. Ahmed helped introduce and lead cloud initiatives at NASA and Mission Control, bringing cutting-edge technology to critical space operations.

In the past three years, Ahmed has developed deep expertise in applied Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, focusing on LLMs and LLMOps. As a Fractional CTO and consultant, he has advised multiple startups on implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), LangGraph, and Langchain architectures for specialized industry applications. He has built Python and TypeScript applications for Property Zoning, Product Compliance, and Property Management sectors, pioneering industry-first Generative AI solutions.

At Pioneer Square Labs, Ahmed served as a Contract CTO focusing on enterprise Generative AI applications before joining the founding team of Certivo. He developed cutting-edge prototypes leveraging NextJS-based front-end and AWS infrastructure, providing strategic technical leadership in AI implementation and integration.

Ahmed excels at bridging business and technology to implement cloud, mobile, and AI solutions across diverse industries. His expertise spans AI-driven coding, evaluations, prompt engineering, LLM for Enterprise, and applied AI solutions that drive multi-million-dollar growth for organizations.