Basit Ali
Software Enginner & Co-Founder at GoFedi
Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
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Top SchoolBasit Ali is a Senior Golang Software Engineer and two-time co-founder with 8 years of experience building and operating production-grade, federated hosting platforms for decentralized social networks. He architects and implements the full stack that powers managed hosting—cloud providers, reverse proxies, automation, payments, databases, caches, storage, queues, networking, and observability—bringing a DevOps-heavy systems mindset to backend engineering. At #SpaceHost and now GoFedi he helped design platforms that make self-hosting Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed and similar services a few clicks away, blending developer ergonomics with operational resilience. Comfortable in both startup and product environments, he pairs hands-on scripting and infrastructure work with higher-level architecture and platform ownership. Passionate about learning new technologies, he approaches problems as creative puzzles and focuses on future-proof, maintainable solutions. Based in Karachi, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep practical experience in federated systems and cloud-native operations.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
St. Judes High SchoolUniversity of Karachi
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Github Skills (12)
mtls7
golang6
pkix6
ssl-certificate6
letsencrypt5
acme5
ssl5
certificate4
go4
lru3
ttl3
key-value2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rjbasitali/rjbasitali.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
rjbasitali/go-cache
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Simple key/value cache for Go
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
golanggo-packagelruttlgo
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