Walid Ali
Gdansk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, United States
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Top SchoolWalid Ali is a seasoned AI and cloud strategist with 8+ years of experience accelerating national- and enterprise-scale AI adoption across industry and government. He has led product and business strategy roles at SDAIA/National Center for AI, Microsoft, Google, AMD and Intel, translating advanced research in multi-modal LLMs, computer vision, NLP and hybrid-cloud architectures into operational programs and partner ecosystems. Known for bridging C-suite strategy with hands-on technical delivery, he built global teams and reference architectures that scaled edge-and-cloud AI solutions and drove measurable revenue and operational impact. His background blends deep engineering (Ph.D. in ECE) with executive education from Harvard Business School, enabling pragmatic decisions across M&A, partnerships and product roadmaps. Based in Gdansk with an international career spanning the US, Europe and the Middle East, he often operates at the intersection of policy, industry strategy and applied AI. Less obvious: he pairs rigorous academic training with a software-geek curiosity that keeps him engaged in both low-level system design and high-level national AI programs.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel UniversityM.Sc., Visualizing Functional Programming on Parallel Computers, M.Sc., Visualizing Functional Programming on Parallel Computers at Imperial College LondonBSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cairo UniversityExecutive Managementt, Executive Leadership, Executive Managementt, Executive Leadership at Harvard Business School
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Github Skills (83)
websocket10
visual-studio10
client-server10
git-clone10
cpp10
markdown10
javascript10
editor10
websocket-client10
algorithm10
search-engine10
svn10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
walidbarakat/Intel-Tiber-Broadcast-Suite
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Part of Intel® Tiber™ Edge Platform, an end-to-end software platform that enables the building, deployment, running, and management of scalable edge solutions.
Contributions:32 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
walidbarakat/cosmos
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
| Contribute toward Hacktoberfest and enjoy 🌱 | Algorithms that run our universe | Your personal library of every algorithm and data structure code that you will ever encounter | Ask us anything at our forum |
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
universepythoncppencountercode-structure
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