In a professional capacity Ahmed served as a Youth Program Coordinator at the Bedlam Theater in Minneapolis He worked there on plays and poetry He has also participated in an enrollment push for MNsure a health insurance program in Minnesota Ahmed and three other actors were picked from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in CedarRiverside Minneapolis According to the search casting director Debbie DeLisi the four were selected because they were the chosen ones that anointed group that stuck out In early 2014 he revealed that he was going to Los Angeles by the spring season in order to continue his acting career In 2016 he partook in A Stray that was directed by Musa Syeed