Maisem Ali
Software Engineer at exe.dev
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMaisem Ali is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems across Microsoft, Google, VMware, and Tailscale, and most recently serving in leadership and engineering roles including Co-Founder & CTO and Principal Engineer. He blends deep backend systems expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular open-source tailscale project where he implemented an improved local bugreporting API—with a track record of shipping production-ready infrastructure for Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Comfortable in both startup and large-enterprise contexts, Maisem moves between hands-on coding and technical leadership, focusing on observability, diagnostics, and developer experience. Based in Woodinville, WA, he combines academic foundations from LUMS with practical experience spanning mobile, cloud, and security-focused networking tools.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesGraduated, High School, Graduated, High School at International School of Choueifat- Lahore (ISC- Lahore)
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2569 reviews, 322 commits, 869 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Maisem Ali contributed to the "tailscale/tailscale" repository, focusing on enhancing the "tailscale bugreport" feature by adding a new subcommand for logging. They made substantial code changes to implement this functionality, including modifications to both command-line interface files and core API files. The modifications involved creating a new local API endpoint for bug reports, and integrating it with the functionality of the tailscale tool. These changes improve user support and diagnostics.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
maisem/kubernetes
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:61 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 10 months
gcpcontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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