Ali Khan
AI Product Manager at Pencil ✏️
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolAli Khan is an AI Product Manager with 9 years of experience building and scaling generative AI platforms and digital products, currently leading image and video generation efforts at Pencil in Tampere, Finland. He has driven growth and product strategy for Imagine AI—managing a 6M user base, a 45k-strong Discord community, and delivery of over 70M generated images—bringing strong data-driven and growth-hacking instincts to product work. His background blends hands-on engineering (Android and backend/DevOps contributions to notable FOSS projects like SUSI.AI and Phimp.me) with enterprise digitalisation and automation expertise from roles at Jazz and Vyro. A NUST-trained computer scientist and Pakistan’s first GitHub Campus Expert, he pairs community leadership and developer training with product coaching experience at Udacity. He’s equally comfortable resolving Kubernetes deployment pipelines and refining UX details like camera flash and pinch-to-zoom, which reflects a pragmatic, full-stack approach to shipping AI features.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Pre-Engineering, C, Intermediate, Pre-Engineering, C at Pakistan International Public School and College AbbottabadMatriculation, Computer Science, A+, Matriculation, Computer Science, A+ at Kashmir Model CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, B, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, B at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, Punjabi
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Github Skills (21)
apim10
javascript10
android-development10
java10
javas10
api10
telegram-bot10
nodejs10
camera2-api10
kubernetes9
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
docker8
gcloud8
gcp8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/susi_telegrambot
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Susi Telegram Bot http://susi.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Susi Telegram bot, adding responses for location, image, table, and RSS data types by integrating with the SUSI API. They also implemented infrastructure changes, including adding code to ping the Heroku app to prevent sleep and setting up Kubernetes deployment for the bot, incorporating deployment scripts and cloud configuration. Furthermore, they improved deployment automation with changes to the deployment scripts.
telegram-bot
fossasia/phimpme-android
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Photo Imaging and Picture Editor
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 34 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the Android application's camera functionality within the Phimp.me project. Their work involved fixing flash settings, implementing a timer feature, and adding pinch-to-zoom capabilities. Furthermore, they made UI updates and addressed minor grammatical errors in the application's dialogs. The user also merged code from the development branch, resolving merge conflicts in the camera-related code.
imaging
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