Najaf Ali
Senior Engineering Manager at Givery, Inc.
Sendai, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNajaf Ali is a Senior Engineering Manager and hands-on technical leader with 15 years building web platforms, developer teams, and product-focused consultancies across Japan and the UK. He founded and grew Happy Bear Software into a distributed Rails/JavaScript consultancy that delivered 30+ projects, trained apprentices into senior engineers, and scaled revenue to roughly £500k. As an independent consultant and current senior manager at Givery, he combines strategic leadership with deep implementation experience in backend systems, SQL/PostgreSQL coaching, and front-end stacks. Najaf’s background includes high-traffic e-commerce and affiliate platforms, CI-driven engineering practices, and multilingual client work in English and Japanese. He also brings a unique blend of technical mentorship and real-world teaching—from corporate SQL coaching to guiding tourists as a local tour guide—highlighting strong communication and cross-cultural adaptability.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Isleworth and Syon School for BoysUniversity College London
English, Japanese
Github Skills (22)
mvc10
rails10
theory10
ruby10
paper10
html10
science10
finder9
ruby-on-rails9
computer-science9
activerecord9
react8
javascript7
jekyll6
api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
happybearsoftware/hbs-content
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 3 months
happygemrubybear
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