Ali Afshar
Engineering Director, Google Developers
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAli Afshar is an engineering director at Google Developers with 21 years of experience building developer platforms, tooling, and scalable infrastructure that power documentation, codelabs, sample code, and client libraries. He bridges hands-on engineering and leadership—having progressed from senior staff roles to lead developer infrastructure and now directing the teams behind Google's digital developer offerings. A pragmatic open-source contributor, Ali has improved OAuth2 and Google API client libraries and authored Android samples for Google Workspace, showing deep familiarity with both backend APIs and mobile integrations. He brings uncommon domain breadth from an earlier medical career in emergency and intensive care, where high-stakes decision-making and advanced life-support training sharpened his operational instincts. Based in Guildford, UK, he combines platform-level strategic thinking with the ability to dive into code and tests to deliver reliable, developer-facing systems.
21 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BM, Medicine, BM, Medicine at University of SouthamptonWinchester College
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
javas10
error-handling10
google-api10
api10
googleapis10
unit-test10
android10
apidoc10
google-drive-api10
python10
java10
testing10
sample-data9
android-sample9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/gdata-python-client
Dec 2010 - Jan 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali implemented features for the Google Data API client, specifically focusing on the update functionality. The user's work included adding the capability to directly pass URIs for updates, and then ensuring the tests passed to validate these changes. The user also introduced initial support for the Content API for Shopping. Further contributions expanded the support for getting product feeds and entries.
googleworkspace/android-samples
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Android samples for Google Workspace APIs
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:22 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the Android sample application, enhancing existing functionalities and adding new features. They added a sample for retrieving metadata, fixed a spelling error, and integrated folder activities, demonstrating a good understanding of the Google Drive API. The user further simplified the code by removing client creation and starting immediate photo capture.
android-samplesworkspacegsuiteandroidgoogle-workspace
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