Ali Taheri
Working Student - IT Admin at Ecosia
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAli Taheri is an IT professional and software engineer based in Berlin, combining a decade of technical experience with hands-on IT administration and front-end/back-end open-source contributions. Currently a working student in IT Admin at Ecosia and pursuing an MSc in Information Systems Management at TU Berlin, he brings practical 1st–2nd level support skills alongside software engineering chops. His open-source work includes accessibility, localization (including Persian and RTL support) and UI improvements to the widely used Material-UI ecosystem, plus documentation and API fixes to Sequelize, showing comfort across front-end and backend stacks. Known for blending customer-facing troubleshooting, network support, and code-quality improvements, he pairs system reliability with thoughtful internationalization and developer-focused enhancements.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Islamic Azad UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information Systems Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems Management at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Persian
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Github Skills (25)
sequel10
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
material-ui10
localization10
orm10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
sequelizejs10
postgresql9
timepicker9
datetimepicker9
material-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 275 commits, 279 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily focused on enhancing the Material UI (MUI) React component library by adding and modifying component properties. Their contributions include adding undocumented style properties across several components like Table, Menu, DropDownMenu, and others. The user also implemented support for the new DropDownMenu and updated the documentation. Additionally, they worked on improving the accessibility and styling of the components.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
sequelize/sequelize
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 112 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to improving the Sequelize ORM, focusing on documentation and API enhancements. Their work involved correcting API documentation for associations, specifically for `belongsTo`, `hasMany`, and `belongsToMany`. They also addressed code quality by tidying up range type implementations and improving the handling of composite indexes and dialect-specific behaviors.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
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