Ali Yahya
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Trade Republic
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Yahya is a Staff Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building resilient, observable infrastructure and developer platforms for finance and high-growth tech companies. He has progressed through SRE and platform roles at Trade Republic, performance and observability work at Wolt, and backend and release engineering roles at Wayfair and HelloFresh, consistently focusing on shipping reliable systems and improving developer experience. A hands-on contributor to Prometheus—where he refactored core components and enhanced PromQL—he brings proven expertise in monitoring, query language changes, and production-grade backend engineering. Ali blends large-scale ops know-how with software craftsmanship, having led platform initiatives like internal developer portals, release automation, and visibility for cost and productivity metrics. Colleagues describe him as someone who “builds bridges” between teams and technologies—literally and figuratively—and who approaches difficult technical problems with curiosity (and a side hobby of growing tomatoes).
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at BINUS University
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (12)
monitoring10
go10
promql10
metric10
alerts9
time-series9
alertview9
alertifyjs9
alertdialog9
configuration-management8
http-server7
testing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/prometheus
May 2016 - Jun 2016
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 29 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ali primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Prometheus codebase. Their work involved modifying the PromQL query language, including the addition of "keep_common" functionality and related code changes. They also addressed HTTP server error logging and updated vendor dependencies. The user demonstrated expertise in core Prometheus components.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
alileza/jjs-december
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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