Abdullah Ali
Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer - Contract - TypeScript AWS Serverless at Superdry
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdullah Ali is a seasoned Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12 years' experience building and migrating high-scale systems using TypeScript, NodeJS and AWS serverless technologies. He has led large migrations and API refactors—most recently consolidating 21 legacy Superdry sites into event-driven microservices—and routinely improves platform reliability through CI/CD, observability and test automation. Comfortable across frontend and backend, he launched consumer-facing products like BBC Sounds and Discovery+ while also delivering backend systems that doubled stock and scaled email delivery to millions. Known for mentoring teams and shifting engineering practices, he blends a cross-technology mindset with pragmatic engineering to solve problems beyond a single stack. Unusually for a backend specialist, his academic background includes top-ranked computer science performance and an early career in game and research tooling, which shapes his focus on measurable performance gains and reusable component design.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, Art, B, A Level, Art, B at Harris City Technology CollegeBachelor of Science BSc (Hons), Computer Science with Games Technology, (Ranked number 1 across university, First Class - 90.04% overall average), Bachelor of Science BSc (Hons), Computer Science with Games Technology, (Ranked number 1 across university, First Class - 90.04% overall average) at City University LondonUniversity College LondonGCSE, GCSE at Addington High SchoolA Level, Mathematics, Graphics, IT, Art, A, A, A, B, A Level, Mathematics, Graphics, IT, Art, A, A, A, B at John Ruskin College
English, Arabic
Github Skills (153)
azure-functions10
mobile-web10
serverless10
javascript10
stream10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
google-cloud-functions10
aws-sam10
serverless-framework10
nodejs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AbdullahAli/node-stream-to-mongo-db
Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
Stream data directly to MongoDB
Contributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 72 pushes in 2 years 6 months
data-streamnodejsstreammongodb
AbdullahAli/Stickehhh
Jul 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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