Alisha Ali is a COBOL developer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise-level systems, now focused on transitioning into data engineering. She pairs disciplined legacy-system expertise with growing skills in SQL, Python, and cloud-based data platforms, aiming to design robust data pipelines that bridge old and new architectures. Her background spans web and mobile stacks—PHP/Laravel, Flutter—and she has contributed to the widely used gRPC project by adding timeout/deadline functionality to its CLI, demonstrating comfort with backend tooling and open-source collaboration. Based in Jaipur, Alisha combines practical internship-driven breadth with production COBOL work, making her adept at translating complex business rules into reliable, auditable code. She is actively upskilling and seeking roles where she can leverage deep mainframe knowledge to accelerate modern data initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Jaipur Cambridge
degree, Computer Support Specialist, degree, Computer Support Specialist at Arya College of Engineering and IT
C++ based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:464 reviews, 57 commits, 134 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alisha contributed to the gRPC CLI tool by adding a timeout flag and implementing functionality related to deadline settings. This involved modifying existing test cases to validate the new timeout functionality, including testing cases for setting and not setting the deadline. The code changes involved modifications to the test files and the addition of new flags.
Contributions:24 PRs, 125 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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