Ali Ariff is a backend-focused Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building and maintaining production web applications, currently developing features for Bukalapak.com using Ruby on Rails. Based in Aachen, Germany, he combines a strong academic background—MSc in Computer Software Engineering from RWTH Aachen and a high-performing Informatics degree from ITS—with hands-on expertise in DevOps and automation. His open-source contributions to the high-profile Linkerd project show a practical ability to improve build and release pipelines, including adding ARM multi-arch Docker builds and cross-compilation workflows. Comfortable across backend development and release engineering, he brings reliability-focused craftsmanship and a knack for adapting systems to multi-architecture environments.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 3.67 / 4.00, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 3.67 / 4.00 at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Automation Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ali's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the build and release processes for the Linkerd project. They added support for building ARM Docker images and releasing CLI artifacts for different architectures. This includes integrating the `crazy-max/ghaction-docker-buildx` tool for cross-compilation and modifying the build scripts. Furthermore, the user added integration tests and modified existing tests to accommodate ARM64 architecture.
Contributions:13 releases, 66 commits, 38 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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