Khalid Ali
Software Engineer at AppFolio, Inc.
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKhalid Ali is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications and machine learning-powered systems. Currently at AppFolio, he blends React front-end work with robust Rails backend patterns to deliver customer-driven features—most notably a custom accounting solution that improved stakeholder satisfaction and streamlined team workflows. His background includes impactful roles at Amazon where he led migrations to AWS Lambda, refactored services toward microservice and functional designs, and achieved measurable cost and performance gains. Comfortable across languages from Ruby and Java to C++ and Python, he also accelerates team productivity through documentation and mentorship, having onboarded multiple mid/senior engineers. Outside product work he experiments with game development, data visualization, and functional programming, bringing a practical curiosity that surfaces in both prototypes and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Machine Learning at UdacityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Urdu
Github Skills (26)
html5-canvas9
arcade9
twitch8
immutability8
functional-programming7
lisp-interpreter7
game-development6
javascript6
bubble5
data-structures5
macros5
expressjs4
metaprogramming4
common-lisp4
boilerplate4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Khaleed/bubble-trouble
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Implementation of the bubble trouble arcade game
Contributions:229 commits, 235 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
arcade-gamegamefunctional-programmingarcadebubble
Khaleed/lambda-js
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
Exploring functional JavaScript
Contributions:1 PR, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
javascriptfunctional-javascriptclosurefunctional-programming
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