Ali Alhaidary
Founder at the5stars
Iraq
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Alhaidary is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over 25 years of experience building ICT capacity and national-scale systems across Iraq and the region. He has led country launches and partner ecosystems for global vendors (Oracle, IBM), architected national ID and passport systems that dramatically improved throughput and security, and now runs the5stars — an e-learning platform focused on certified, institution-backed online classrooms and assessment tools. Comfortable at the intersection of strategy and delivery, he has advised the Ministry of Higher Education on ICT strategy and established vendor excellence centers that strengthened local technical capability. Based in Iraq, Ali combines hands-on systems architecture and project leadership with deep public-sector relationships, and his work emphasizes measurable impact—reducing passport wait times from months to days and scaling system throughput by an order of magnitude. An engineer by training (BSc Physics) who pivoted into high-stakes ICT programs, he remains committed to practical digital transformation that empowers institutions and students.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
GCE, GCE, GCE, GCE at Baghdad CollegeBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Baghdad University
Arabic, English, Kurdish
Github Skills (76)
jitsi10
web-application10
video-conferencing10
bug-tracker10
chat10
svg10
mediasoup10
collaboration10
sketch10
javascript10
kurento10
debian10
data-protection10
drawing10
sdk10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ali-alhaidary/jitsi-meet
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Contributions:28 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
securescalablescalable-video-conferencesjitsiweb-application
ali-alhaidary/tldraw
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
A tiny little drawing app.
Contributions:27 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
tinyreactdrawing-appdrawing
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