Syed Ali
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Arbisoft
Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolSyed Ali is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native platforms for the e-learning sector, currently contributing at 2U and edX. He blends deep Linux and cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, OpenStack) with hands-on Kubernetes, GitOps and CI/CD practice—designing dev environments with vClusters, DevSpace and Capsule and driving automation through ArgoCD, Terraform, Jenkins and container runtimes like Podman/Buildah. A top-30 OpenStack community contributor, he has improved production deployments and operational tooling for Open edX, including Ansible/nginx, Jenkins and Splunk integrations. Syed also develops ML tooling and distributed data pipelines in Python/TensorFlow, and is passionate about IoT and edge Kubernetes architectures. He’s known for pragmatic problem-solving (evident in careful e-commerce service fixes and deployment reversions) and a taste for building bots to automate repetitive work.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation, Matriculation at Saint Mary's High SchoolBIT Information Technology, BIT Information Technology at NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesF.Sc Pre-Engineering, F.Sc Pre-Engineering at Edward's College
Urdu, English, hindko, Pashto, Punjabi
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
data-service10
python10
django10
configuration-management10
dockers10
webservice10
ansible10
task-queue10
ansible-galaxy10
nginx10
backend10
celery9
cloudflare-api9
jenkins-ci9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Oct 2016 - Dec 2021
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 146 commits, 105 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Syed focused on improving the deployment and configuration of the Open edX platform. They modified Ansible playbooks and templates, specifically for the nginx configuration, adding comments, and fixing errors. They also updated a Python script (`parsefiles.py`) related to Docker file processing, and implemented a script to retrieve cache hit rates from Cloudflare. In addition, the user worked on updating the jenkins configurations as well as the configuration for the Splunk server.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Syed's contributions primarily revolve around configuring and modifying settings within the Django-based e-commerce service. They made changes to the `base.py` and `production.py` settings files, including adjustments related to Celery, CORS headers, and task queues. The user appears to have experimented with moving and removing settings related to task queues, indicating a focus on operational aspects of the application. Their actions include a series of reverts, which further demonstrates a problem-solving attitude while maintaining the operational status of the application.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
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