Summary
Ali Sabir is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native services, currently working at PayPal after internships and full-time roles at Microsoft and Salesforce. He pairs a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from UW–Madison with practical research in cloud-native databases and hands-on projects like a FUSE-backed distributed file system (WiscAFS) and a replicated in-memory key-value store. At Salesforce he was a founding engineer on Sales Enablement features, designing asynchronous measure computation pipelines and integrating virtual objects for AI-driven insights; at PayPal he has delivered product and infrastructure work for Venmo’s growth services. Comfortable across Java, Go, Python, C/C++, gRPC, Spring, and PyTorch, he blends systems-level rigor with machine learning curiosity. Colocated in Chicago, he stands out for moving research prototypes into production-quality services and for seeking roles that tackle complex, measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Wisconsin-Madison