Ali Raza
Lead Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
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Top SchoolAli Raza is a Lead Software Engineer based in Islamabad with 9 years of experience building high-performance web apps and cloud APIs, currently driving platform modernization at DigitalOcean. He has led large migrations and architecture refactors—modernizing 130+ endpoints and migrating 175+ provisioning files—while promoting DDD and TDD practices across teams. Previously he delivered business-impacting features like a Taxamo billing integration that added $5M+ annual net profit and automated critical Adyen refund processes. Comfortable across product and infrastructure, he has launched revenue-generating products (including a real-time COVID temp-monitoring system) and mentored multiple junior engineers into production-readiness. Known for combining pragmatic engineering with measurable business outcomes, he excels at turning legacy systems into testable, scalable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Virtual University of PakistanAndroid Nano Degree Computer Science, Android Nano Degree Computer Science at Udacity
English, Urdu
Stackoverflow
882reputation
120kreached
62answers
8questions
Github Skills (57)
laravel10
php10
eloquent9
laravel-framework9
media8
media-library8
laravel-package8
laravel-api8
auth7
laravel-authentication7
react6
tailwind6
api6
vue6
in-memory-database6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brainlet-ali/laravel-convert-timezone
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 releases, 64 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 4 months
brainlet-ali/utils
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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