Azeem Ali
Experienced Software Engineer Architect at Self-Employed
Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolAzeem Ali is an experienced hands-on Software Engineer and Architect with 11 years building and maintaining small to large-scale enterprise and performance-critical systems across backend, cloud, embedded, and cross-platform domains. He combines deep systems-level skills in C/C++, Go, multithreading, networking and serialization with modern DevOps practices—Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and profiling—to deliver robust, scalable products. Comfortable across Linux, macOS and Windows, he emphasizes formal code review, refactoring, testing and documentation to sustain long-term quality. An active open-source contributor, he has improved GitHub’s official CLI—enhancing workflow run handling, refactoring for safer resource management, and adding cache deletion—demonstrating practical impact on widely used developer tooling. Based in Punjab, Pakistan, he pairs continuous learning of new idioms and design patterns with hands-on implementation and maintenance.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Virtual University of PakistanMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of the Punjab, Lahore
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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qt
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ckeditor
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Github Skills (18)
github-ci10
githubactions10
go10
workflow-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
qt9
git9
json9
github9
ckeditor9
yaml9
golang9
cli9
fluentd6
continuous-integration6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 34 PRs, 107 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Azeem primarily focused on improving the `gh cli` tool, contributing to the workflow run functionality. They addressed failures in workflow runs by stopping the progress indicator. They also refactored code using `defer` statements for resource management and merged code from the main trunk into a development branch. In addition, the user added functionality to delete caches.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
iamazeem/iamAzeem
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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