Ali Kamali
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Kamali is a pragmatic systems engineer with 8+ years building high-performance, distributed infrastructure in C++ and Java, currently contributing to OpenAI's Scaling team from Vancouver. His work spans databases, ETL, and multicore systems—at Visier he led horizontal scaling of a single-threaded DB to a resilient multi-node OLAP platform and delivered query optimizations with up to 100x speedups. He brings deep low-level expertise from academic research on VM scheduling and cache sharing to production debugging tools that turned multi-day investigations into minute-long workflows. Comfortable across networking, JVM internals, Spark integration, and off-heap memory architectures, he pairs performance-first engineering with developer productivity wins (e.g., slashing build times). Known for reverse-engineering and protocol work, he combines systems research rigor with hands-on delivery in distributed environments.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, 4.13, MSc, Computer Science, 4.13 at Simon Fraser UniversityBSc, Computer Engineering, BSc, Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (41)
python10
machine-learning10
intellij-idea10
deep-learning10
gpu10
intellij-plugin10
intellij9
vpn9
wireguard9
numpy9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
oauth9
intellij-platform9
gpu-acceleration8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akamali/mhk1_mqtt
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Control Mitsubishi Heat Pump using MHK1 and MQTT
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 months
pumpheatmqtthome-automationmitsubishi
akamali/intellij-scala
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 2 days
intellij-platformintellij-ideascalaintellij-pluginintellij
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