Ali Shaikh is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with around 10 years of industry experience building backend systems and infrastructure. He has recent hands-on experience on SEO-focused backend work for Apartments.com/CoStar Group and has interned on storage engineering and test automation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as well as drug discovery R&D tooling at Genentech. Ali combines production engineering with academic rigor—he conducted AI for Search & Rescue research at Cal Poly—bringing both practical shipping experience and research-driven problem solving. He also has program management and leadership experience from founding a campus CS career club and interning as a technical program manager, signaling strong cross-functional communication alongside his coding skills. Reachable and collaborative, he’s positioned to tackle backend systems, automation, and applied ML/AI tooling in production environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High School
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Computer Science, Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
Certificate in Intermediate Software Engineering, Certificate in Intermediate Software Engineering at CodePath
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Ali Shaikh - Software Engineer at General Medicine