Ali El-shayeb
Chief Executive Officer at Islands
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAli El-shayeb is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with eight years of experience building and scaling AI-first startups and products. He has led engineering, product, and go-to-market teams as CEO of Islands and previously scaled nugget.ai to seven-figure annual sales before its acquisition, and served as CTO through an exit at DIG Labs. Hands-on across Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python/ML, GraphQL and AWS, he blends product design sensibility with deep software architecture and ML curiosity. He also launches focused ventures like QA flow (an AI QA engineer) and Shoreline (a rewards program for global payroll), reflecting a pattern of turning operational pain points into investable products. Based in Toronto, he combines founder-level strategy with day-to-day engineering leadership, mentoring teams and investing through IslandX. A self-taught developer turned operator, he brings an uncommon mix of quant-finance interest and practical ML experience to product-driven startups.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, M.A, International Management, Master’s Degree, M.A, International Management at Toulouse Business SchoolBachelor’s Degree, I.B.B.A, Spec. Hons. Administration specs. Finance and Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, I.B.B.A, Spec. Hons. Administration specs. Finance and Information Systems at York University - Schulich School of BusinessCertificate, Intermidiate proficiency in french language studies, 7/9, Certificate, Intermidiate proficiency in french language studies, 7/9 at York University
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (6)
predict4
stock2
python1
machine-learning1
data-science1
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aelshayeb/stocks
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
pythonstock-pricesdata-sciencepricesmachine-learning
aelshayeb/pigeon
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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