Ali Ibrahim
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Ibrahim is a Senior Engineer based in Old Toronto with 19+ years of engineering experience and 13 years in professional roles, specializing in backend systems and SaaS at scale. He currently builds GraphQL APIs and Ruby services at Shopify powering the Shop Minis platform, and previously led engineering teams that delivered real-time mortgage and marketplace platforms through to acquisition. Comfortable across the stack, he has deep Ruby/Rails expertise and a track record of designing high-throughput data ingestion and realtime systems for hundreds of partners. An active open-source contributor, he expanded Discourse's API to handle private messaging and file uploads, showing an eye for pragmatic API design and interoperability. Known for hiring and mentoring engineers, Ali blends hands-on implementation with team-building to improve velocity and reliability in production environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Sciences, BS, Computer Sciences at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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38answers
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
rspec10
api10
apidoc10
rubygems9
faraday8
git6
chartkick6
constants6
special-characters6
ruby-on-rails6
charts6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse_api
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Ruby API for Discourse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali primarily focused on expanding the Discourse API functionality, particularly around private messages. They implemented features for creating, fetching, and sending private messages within the application. Their work involved modifications to the Ruby API code, corresponding specification tests, and example code, demonstrating a good understanding of API design and implementation. The user also added the capability to upload files, demonstrating a solid grasp of API interactions.
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aliibrahim/foundation-datetimepicker-rails
Jun 2013 - Sep 2022
foundation-datetimepicker-rails
Contributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 21 pushes in 9 years 4 months
railsfoundation-datetimepickerrubyfoundationdatetimepicker
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