Karim Alibhai
Senior Software Engineer II at AcuityMD
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKarim Alibhai is a Senior Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and developer tooling. He has repeatedly shipped end-to-end products used by thousands—from retail platforms at L-Brands to a recruitment startup he co-founded that served Amazon, Facebook and Cisco and was later acquired. Karim blends backend systems engineering, DevOps and performance-focused architecture (notably dramatic Redis memory optimizations and fast search APIs) with a founder’s mindset for rapid, cost-conscious scaling. He’s a strong advocate for developer experience, builds internal tools and CLIs to cut time-to-recovery, and enjoys sharing learnings through talks and teaching. Based in Toronto, he consults for startups and SMEs while continuing to lead engineering teams and ship high-impact features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Ottawa
English
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
npm-package10
http-client10
unicorns10
redis-client10
data-model10
api10
broccoli10
increment10
in-memory10
nodejs10
mongodb10
unit-testing10
gitbook10
hour10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
karimsa/wiz
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Zero config toolchain to manage JS projects with simplicity.
Contributions:4 PRs, 106 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
reactjs-projectszeroeslintjavascript
karimsa/karimsa.github.io
Apr 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:36 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 6 months
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