Shafqat Ullah
CTO - EdTech SaaS at Office Hours
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 (160)
ruby10
automation10
apollo-client10
virtualization10
apollographql10
vagrant10
java10
aot10
chat-application10
graphql-client10
javascript9
dia9
sdk9
angular9
kubelet9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alo-exp/silver-bullet
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:20 releases, 3 PRs, 411 pushes in 3 months
shafqatevo/goose
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:291 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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