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 Cedar-Riverside, 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.

艾哈迈德以专业身份在明尼阿波利斯的贝德拉姆剧院担任青年项目协调员。他在那里从事戏剧和诗歌创作。他还参与了明尼苏达州健康保险计划MNsure的注册推动。艾哈迈德和其他三名演员是在2011年在明尼阿波利斯锡达-里弗赛德的布莱恩·科伊尔社区中心举行的700多名参与者中挑选出来的。根据搜索选角导演黛比·德利西（Debbie DeLisi）的说法，这四人之所以被选中，是因为他们是“被选中的人，那个脱颖而出的受膏群体”。2014年初，他透露他将在春季前往洛杉矶，以继续他的演艺生涯。2016年，他参演了由穆萨·赛义德执导的《流浪者》。