Ahmed Ali
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarAhmed Ali is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading and scaling engineering teams across mobile, VR, and infrastructure domains. He built and led teams at Meta focused on Quest release processes and Reality Labs automation, blending deep iOS expertise with hands-on work in C++, Rust, and Java. At Customer.io he continues to drive product health and delivery while applying rigorous SDLC practices and measurable OKRs. Known for shrinking critical binaries and hardening telemetry systems, he has shipped efficiency and reliability improvements that materially impacted large-scale products. He also contributes to open-source tooling—enhancing JSONExport with Realm support and UX fixes—demonstrating a full-stack problem-solving instinct. Based in Abu Dhabi, he pairs pragmatic engineering judgment with a track record of turning complex release challenges into repeatable, data-driven processes.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (18)
json10
objective-c10
jsonb10
jsonp10
osdev10
realm10
macos10
swift10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
cocoa-touch6
uikit6
swiftui6
bdd6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ahmed-Ali/JSONExport
Nov 2014 - Nov 2018
JSONExport is a desktop application for Mac OS X which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:117 commits, 48 PRs, 105 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the JSONExport application. They added support for Realm, a database, and implemented features related to defining parent classes for model files. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, added support for parsing JSON arrays, and improved the user experience by fixing invalid quote handling and improving responsiveness. These contributions encompassed both UI changes and underlying code modifications to improve the application's capabilities.
desktop-applicationjson-objectsmacos
Ahmed-Ali/Cucumberish
Jan 2016 - Sep 2021
Cucumberish is test automation framework for Behaviour Driven Development. It is inspired by the amazing way of writing automated test cases introduced originally by Cucumber using Gherkin language
Contributions:6 releases, 197 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 8 months
cucumbergherkintest-automation-frameworktestcase
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