Atif Ali
Product Manager at Coder
Pakistan
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Top SchoolAtif Ali is a product manager and former technical writer with a decade of experience building developer-focused tooling and documentation at Coder, where he now owns Developer Experience and Ecosystem. He blends hands-on DevOps and automation skills—improving CI/CD, multi-arch builds, and SBOM attestations for the popular coder/coder repo—with product responsibilities like QA, release notes, and community support. A founder and CTO of a startup and a graduate researcher in energy-efficient ML and neuromorphic computing, he bridges deep technical research with practical product delivery. Based in Pakistan, he is known for turning complex deployment workflows into one-click templates and clear guides that streamline onboarding for engineers and operators.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.52/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.52/4.00 at Bilkent UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.81/4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.81/4.00 at Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS)
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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33kreached
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Github Skills (26)
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
sbom10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
shell10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1142 reviews, 17 commits, 1336 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Atif primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and automation aspects. They were responsible for improving the CI/CD pipeline, as evidenced by their work on PR deployments and multi-arch image builds. Furthermore, the user made significant changes to the installation scripts and documentation generation, indicating a focus on streamlining developer workflows and enhancing the overall project maintainability. They also updated the build process and added SBOM attestations to the docker images.
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coder/packages
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Deploy Coder to your preferred cloud with a pre-built package.
Contributions:34 reviews, 196 PRs, 226 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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