Ali Qureshi
Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAli Qureshi is a software engineer based in Seattle with four years of experience building backend systems and testing infrastructure, currently contributing at Amazon. He has a strong academic foundation with an MS from NC State and a BE from Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, and moved from research and teaching roles into industry internships and full-time engineering at Trilliant before joining Amazon. His open-source work on the Expertiza peer-review platform shows hands-on experience improving backend logic, file-integrity checks, and QA automation for an NSF-supported education project. Known for tracking down subtle bugs (for example fixing task state inconsistencies after submission), he blends rigorous testing with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and curious about improving user-facing features through robust backend fixes.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at North Carolina State UniversityBombay Scottish SchoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of MumbaiBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
model-driven9
controller9
modeling9
model-driven-development9
model-building9
st8
peer7
code-review7
reviewboard7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 68 PRs, 120 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the backend logic and testing infrastructure of the Expertiza application. Their work involved modifying existing tests to accommodate file type changes and updating the submitted_content_controller.rb to incorporate file extension integrity checks. Furthermore, the user fixed a bug in the StudentTask model where the task was showing "not started" even after submission. They also made several updates to manage user features including search functionality and bug fixes.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
qureshi-ali/qureshi-ali
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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