Ali Dowair
Senior Software Engineer at StrongDM
United States
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Top SchoolAli Dowair is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building distributed storage, databases, and cloud-native APIs, currently shaping infrastructure at StrongDM. A CKAD-certified Kubernetes application developer, he has delivered production features for Kubernetes data protection and backup tools, including significant backend contributions to the popular open-source Kopia project (idempotent PutBlob, Volume interfaces, and GetCapacity for GCS/SFTP). He blends systems-level expertise—from RocksDB virtual WALs to MongoDB-backed metadata services—with a developer-first approach to containerization and workflows. Ali is people-oriented and proactive about knowledge-sharing, having led internal learning initiatives, co-authored a Kubernetes Aggregated API course, and presented to CNCF audiences. He gravitates toward practical improvements that unlock cross-cloud workflows and reduce operational cost and load. Based in the United States, he pairs academic engineering roots with hands-on open-source collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at University of MichiganCambridge AS and A Level High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Cambridge AS and A Level High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at New English School, Kuwait.
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (11)
google-cloud-storage10
storage10
filesystem10
go10
api10
apidoc10
sftp9
backup9
deduplication8
testing8
encryption7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kopia/kopia
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 14 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Kopia backup tool, focusing on the implementation of storage provider APIs and features. They expanded the PutBlob API to include idempotent put operations, introduced a Volume sub-interface, and implemented the GetCapacity API for various storage backends, including Google Drive and SFTP. Additionally, the user modified and added tests to validate provider implementations and ensure correct behavior of the new features.
google-cloud-storagebackupclidata-deduplicationend-to-end
adowair/ali.dowair.com
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
My personal landing page and blog
Contributions:3 reviews, 25 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
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