Abdul Jaleel
Principal Backend Engineer at Ultrahuman
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAbdul Jaleel is a Principal Backend Engineer based in Abu Dhabi with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems in Ruby, Python, and Go. He has progressed from research roles and web development to leadership and founding roles, including co-founding MATCHBOX.ONE and leading platform engineering at Zomato before joining Ultrahuman as Engineering Lead and now Principal Backend Engineer. His background in control and instrumentation (M.Tech, IIT Madras) gives him a systems-oriented approach to reliability and performance engineering. He excels at turning ambiguous product needs into scalable architectures and mentoring teams through fast growth phases. Notably, he bridges academic rigor and startup pragmatism, having moved between research at Texas A&M and product-focused roles across India, Qatar, and the UAE. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, high-impact solutions that balance engineering excellence with delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Applied Electronics & Instrumentation, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Applied Electronics & Instrumentation at College of Engineering TrivandrumIdeal Indian School, Doha, Qatar
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, Tamil
Github Skills (71)
lti10
lita10
rescript10
edtech10
ruby-on-rails10
lms10
iterative10
asynchronous10
learning-management-system10
reason-react10
elearning10
driver10
mhealth10
interaction10
graphql10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bodhish/plate-printing
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
A simple dashboard to manage a plate-printing along with plate and delevery tracking. A Ruby on Rails project
Contributions:1 PR, 65 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
ruby-on-railsprintingrailsplateruby
ajaleelp/fpl-scout
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
A scout assist for FPL players.
Contributions:67 pushes, 3 branches, 14 comments in 7 months
fplplayersscoutassist
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