Ali Alpay
Managing Director at Seattle Universal Math Museum
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Alpay is a seasoned product, marketing, and customer-success executive with two decades of experience building customer-focused teams and driving multi-billion-dollar growth across hardware and cloud ecosystems. He has led large-scale global programs at Microsoft—ranging from Surface marketing and Modern Work customer success to partner product strategy and incentive design—consistently tying strategy to execution and engineering to go-to-market. Now in senior leadership and angel investing roles, he blends operator rigor with venture-minded portfolio building at Tanuki Ventures and Wharton Alumni Angels. A hands-on builder who still contributes to front-end engineering efforts (notably UI improvements in MicrosoftEdge demos), he uniquely bridges code, data-driven sales, and strategic partnerships. Known for frugal marketing and dogged execution, he also brings a global perspective from early international leadership across Middle East & Africa. He is a voracious reader and curious learner who enjoys assembling diverse teams to tackle big problems and drive outsized outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA International Studies, MA International Studies at The Lauder Institute - University of PennsylvaniaBA Economics, BA Economics at Yale UniversityMBA Operations and Information Management, MBA Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School
English, Turkish, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
html10
css10
web-audio-api9
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftEdge/Demos-old
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Open source and interoperable demos for Microsoft Edge Dev site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of a web application. Their work involved modifying CSS styles and HTML structure, as evidenced by changes to `demotemplate.css`, `demo.css`, and `index.html` files. The commits showcase a focus on improving the user interface, including style adjustments, layout modifications, and potentially fixing display issues related to the audio mixer functionality. The changes suggest an effort to enhance the visual presentation and user experience of the application.
interoperabledevmicrosoft-edgeedgemicrosoft
MicrosoftEdge/serviceworker-demo
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Service Worker demos
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
workerreacttypescriptservice-worker
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