Ahmed Dirie is the founder of Octelligence, a platform built to help corporations, law firms, and accounting professionals manage corporate records with the rigor they deserve. He started the company after seeing the same pattern repeat itself across financings, audits, acquisitions, and regulatory reviews: corporate records were often fragmented, outdated, or incomplete, creating unnecessary risk and costly remediation work.
Before founding Octelligence, Ahmed built and led a software company that transformed how mailbox and virtual office providers manage customer communications. By introducing digital notification and workflow capabilities to an industry traditionally dependent on manual processes, he gained firsthand experience building, operating, and supporting software relied upon by paying customers every day. That experience shaped Octelligence from the beginning: founder-built, customer-focused, and designed for long-term reliability rather than short-term growth metrics.
Alongside his work as a founder, Ahmed operates an independent consulting practice that has been engaged across multiple Government of Canada departments to design secure cloud architectures and modernize enterprise technology platforms. His work focuses on secure cloud adoption, automation, compliance alignment, and operational excellence in environments where reliability and security are non-negotiable. He holds a Master of Science in Advanced Computer Science and maintains a Government of Canada Secret Level II clearance.
Ahmed designed and built Octelligence end to end, from its multi-tenant architecture and audit-grade event logging to its document generation, verification services, and security controls. The same governance-first and security-by-design principles applied to government and enterprise systems form the foundation of how Octelligence protects corporate records today.
Outside his commercial work, Ahmed is the founder of Spark Nucleus, a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to technology education, AI readiness, cybersecurity awareness, cloud engineering skills, and digital opportunities for underserved communities. The organization reflects his belief that technology should create opportunities for those who have historically had the fewest pathways into the industry.
Whether building software, advising organizations, or supporting community initiatives, Ahmed's work is guided by a common principle: creating systems and institutions that remain reliable, trusted, and valuable long after they are put in place.
Founder & operator
Independent consulting practice
Gov. of Canada Secret Level II
M.Sc. Advanced Computer Science
15+ years cloud & security
Founder, Spark Nucleus (non-profit)