Ali Raza
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Raza is a Software Development Engineer II with nine years of experience building distributed, high-availability systems across cloud and enterprise environments. Currently at AWS after multiple engineering roles, he brings hands-on expertise in backend services, Kubernetes routing, gRPC/REST APIs, and multi-tenant database design from his prior work at IBM on Watson Orchestrate and CP4BA offerings. He has full-stack chops—having implemented front-end accessibility improvements and created CI/CD and deployment tooling—paired with pragmatic automation to streamline team workflows. Known for coordinating cross-team integrations and shipping production-ready cloud services, he blends system design with practical operational improvements. Based in Seattle and educated at the University of Toronto, he focuses on resilient architectures and developer productivity, often surfacing small tooling wins that reduce day-to-day friction for engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Toronto
Urdu, English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
webrtc9
vue9
peer-to-peer8
react8
realtime7
quasar-framework7
javascript6
blockchain2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alir128/toonin
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
A chrome extension that allows friends to "Tune In" to each others' music!
Contributions:9 releases, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
chromemusictunechrome-extension
BetterPlanner/BetterPlanner-uoft
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Schedule and course planner for UofT students
Contributions:68 commits, 4 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 1 month
javascriptuoftplannerschedulecourse-planner
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