Ali Haydar
Principal Engineer (Platform)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Haydar is a Principal Engineer (Platform) based in Auckland with 10 years of experience building and scaling platform engineering teams and infrastructure for rapid-growth products. He combines hands-on systems and cloud engineering (AWS community builder background) with people leadership, having moved from Platform Team Lead to Head of Engineering and now Principal Engineer at Tracksuit. Ali is skilled at architecting resilient systems, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-functional collaboration to launch and scale products reliably. His career began in QA and test automation, giving him a strong foundation in reliability and delivery practices that inform his platform work today. Quick to adapt, he blends technical depth with organisational change leadership to keep teams productive under shifting priorities. Outside of core roles he mentors and trains engineers, translating complex technical challenges into practical team-level improvements.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Maîtrise in Science (equivalent to 1 year of post graduate degree), Computer science, Maîtrise in Science (equivalent to 1 year of post graduate degree), Computer science at Lebanese University
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (27)
api8
dynamodb7
refactoring6
nodejs6
php6
rector6
lambda5
sdk5
aws-sdk5
typescript5
slack-bot5
javascript5
pluggable4
aws4
email-verification3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AHaydar/gmail-helper
Jun 2019 - May 2020
A set of functions that could be helpful when testing email verification
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 11 months
email-testingtestingemailemail-verificationhelpful
AHaydar/cypress-api-test
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Execute API call using cypress
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cypressapiapi-call
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