Ali Mohammad
CEO at Nuli Coffee Inc.
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Mohammad is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as CEO of Nuli Coffee while blending operational leadership with deep engineering expertise. He holds advanced degrees from MIT and a strong multi-discipline undergraduate background in math, physics, CS, and computer engineering, reflecting a rare breadth of technical foundation. Previously he led engineering teams at Authess and served as Principal Engineer at edX, where he worked on core platform reliability and performance, and contributed back-end fixes and monitoring improvements to the widely used Open edX LMS. Early roles at Google honed his site reliability and latency-focused engineering instincts, driving measurable improvements in user-perceived speed for large-scale ad systems. Comfortable shifting between hands-on coding and strategic leadership, he has co-founded fabrication and maker spaces and brings an inventor’s mindset to product and infrastructure challenges. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he combines Midwestern roots and Middle Eastern heritage with a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to building resilient systems and startups.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate of Science (Sc.D.) Computer Science, Doctorate of Science (Sc.D.) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Physics at Kansas State University
iraqi arabic, French, German, Italian, English
Github Skills (10)
performance-monitoring10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
git8
automation-testing7
dockers7
docker7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 46 PRs, 89 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Open edX platform. Their work included fixing a bug related to the China CDN experiment, adding default configurations, modifying graphite metric names, and exposing CDN monitoring environment variables. The user also addressed conflicts related to merging branches and refactored the code to use the UserStateClient API. Furthermore, the user worked on the logging and monitoring system.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
alawibaba/autoseamless
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
This is the best automatic orderer from Seamless that I know of, and it's terrible.
Contributions:55 commits, 6 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 months
terribleseamless
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