Shafqat Ullah
CTO - EdTech SaaS at CodersTrust
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolShafqat Ullah is a seasoned CTO, software architect and engineer with 25+ years of programming experience and a track record of architecting award-winning enterprise products, SaaS and country-scale IT systems across telecom, finance, healthcare, e-government and education. Based in Sydney, he currently leads EdTech SaaS strategy and a re-architecture effort aimed at scaling to 100M learners, while also directing Ālo Labs, a research-driven open-source lab that produced 50+ publications and multiple patents. His work spans hands-on system design—Python, Scala, Kubernetes, WebAssembly, event-driven streaming—and deep theoretical advances like the Systems Model of Computation, STEPS and Fluid Computing that rethink distributed software fundamentals. He combines product-level business strategy (fundraising, valuation uplift, GTM) with academic rigor, mentoring large cohorts through a contributors learning program and advising organizations including MIT Futures CoLab, UN bodies and Fortune 250 firms. Notably, he built Ālo OS and Bloom to run millions of in-memory agents and WebAssembly workloads on commodity VMs, demonstrating orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains rarely seen outside research labs. An IIT Kharagpur computer science graduate, he blends systems-theory innovation with decades of practical delivery in emerging markets and global enterprises.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bangla, French, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (195)
ruby10
chat10
automation10
real-time-data10
apollo-client10
sdk10
virtualization10
apollographql10
vagrant10
java10
aot10
chat-application10
caching10
docker10
graphql-client10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alo-explorations/Wishlist
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
vmencik/akka-graal-native
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Example of Akka HTTP server compiled with GraalVM native-image
Contributions:2 comments, 2 issues in 10 months
akka-httpscalanative-imagegraalvmakka
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