Ahmad Hashim Farooq
Machine Learning Engineer at Revcloud
I'm a machine learning engineer at Revcloud. I build the ML systems that serve about 50,000 people a day, plus the AWS and Azure infrastructure they run on. I finished my computer science degree at COMSATS in 2025, but I'd already been working as an engineer since my second year. I've also sat on the other side of the interview table for around twenty candidates in backend, AI and web roles. Most of what I write here comes out of that.
Articles by Ahmad Hashim Farooq (6)
What a machine learning engineer actually does, and the half my degree never covered
I train models and deploy them on SageMaker. My degree prepared me for the first half of that sentence and nothing after it.
I got my best-paying job from a Reddit post. Here's exactly how it happened.
I found my best-paying job in a Reddit post. One DM, one interview and two days later I had the offer.
I got my first job offer by talking about my users, not React. Here's what I'd check before accepting one now.
I applied half asleep to a job I hadn't read. The interview skipped React and asked about my users, and a year later my salary had doubled.
I ran the technical interview for about twenty candidates. Here's why the capable ones got turned down.
I sat on the hiring side for around twenty technical evaluations. The rejections that stayed with me were not the people who could not code.
First job internship search tips that actually work
First job internship search tips that get a student from zero experience to their first offer.
I got my first engineering job through a referral. Here's what made someone willing to give me one.
A classmate put my name forward in my second year of university. What made him willing to do it, and what the referral could not do for me once I was in the room.