Summary
Ali Chamas is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of cross-industry experience delivering high-performance full-stack applications for agencies, government, enterprise and startups. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems (React, Next.js, GraphQL) and framework engineering, while also bringing systems-level experience in C/C++, Java and Python from game engines to banking platforms. At Playco he contributed to PixiJS v8 and led architecture for a real-time collaborative PixiJS editor and production UI micro-frameworks; at Atlassian he improved SLOs to 99.9% and built a visual regression testing framework. Comfortable as both IC and tech lead, he combines creative multimedia and graphics training with pragmatic CI/CD and reliability practices. Based in Gosford, Australia, he maintains an active open-source presence (npm/github: dragonworx) and enjoys tackling performance-critical, interactive problems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Development, Certificate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Development at Synergy Technology Training Series
Associate Diploma of Arts Graphic Design, Associate Diploma of Arts Graphic Design at Enmore Design Center
Certificate Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007, Certificate Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 at New Horizons Learning Center, Sydney
Certificate Object Oriented Programming with C++, Certificate Object Oriented Programming with C++ at University of Technology Sydney