Ali Zahid
Co-Founder at Workcraft
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Zahid is a Dubai-based co-founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack products and leading technical teams across startups and enterprise clients. He has led engineering for e-commerce and loyalty platforms, architected backend services on Node.js and Azure, and shipped mobile and web apps using React Native, Rails, and modern front-end tooling. A hands-on technical lead and founder, he moves between code, stakeholder management, and product strategy, having coached teams and overseen launches for retail, government, and media clients. His open-source work includes front-end UX improvements to a lightweight navigation plugin, reflecting a long-standing interest in polished, user-focused design that dates back to childhood. Comfortable in both rapid startups and structured enterprise environments, he combines entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Software Engineering, Bachelors Software Engineering at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and TechnologyO Levels Business Studies, O Levels Business Studies at DA Public SchoolA Levels Business, A Levels Business at DA Public
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
jquery10
css10
menu10
front-end-development10
html10
responsive-design9
mysqli6
react6
nodejs6
php6
react-native6
mysql6
sass4
webpack4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alizahid/slinky
Apr 2014 - Jul 2019
A light-weight, responsive, mobile-like navigation menu plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 57 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the "slinky" repository, a jQuery-based navigation menu plugin. Their commits centered on enhancing the user interface, including adding social media links and integrating the menu into an HTML demo. They also addressed bugs related to the menu's animation and transitions and improved the overall user experience. The user's work involved updating the core JavaScript and CSS, while also refactoring code and modernizing the codebase by including CSS animations.
menumobiledrawernavigationsass
alizahid/acorn
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Reddit for mobile
Contributions:1 PR, 202 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
eslintnextjsreactreact-nativereddit
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