Ali Shaikh
Software Architect at Akkodis
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAli Shaikh is a results-driven Software Architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams from Dubai. He combines deep DevOps expertise—Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Docker and CI/CD—with hands-on full-stack development in Laravel, Node.js and Python to deliver fault-tolerant microservice platforms processing thousands of users per hour. At Yomly he maintained a TOGAF-standard architecture of 50+ microservices, implemented Camunda BPMN workflows, and solved subtle production issues like backpressure and deadlocks, demonstrating both systems-level thinking and practical troubleshooting. He mentors engineers, standardises development practices, and has a track record of cutting deployment and onboarding time through automation and tooling. Comfortable translating customer requirements into resilient architectures, he also brings uncommon experience integrating SSO/identity protocols and event-driven document pipelines for secure, auditable workflows.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Certificate, A, Secondary School Certificate, A at Saint John’s Grammar School, PakistanBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, First Class with Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, First Class with Honours at Kingston UniversityHigher Secondary School Certificate, Pre-Engineering, Higher Secondary School Certificate, Pre-Engineering at Punjab College of IT, Pakistan
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Hindi
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
terraform10
docker-container10
php-library10
composer10
artisan10
tencent10
docker-compose10
laravel10
dummy-data10
meta-tags10
azure10
debugging10
php-container10
saas10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Ali-Shaikh/free-for-dev
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
paasdevopsinterestcloudsaas
Ali-Shaikh/LumenRESTfulAPIwithReact
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Lumen RESTful API with React Front-end
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
apireactrestfullumenreact-front-end
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