Waqas Ali
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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SeniorWaqas Ali is a Quantitative Technologist with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently applying his full-stack and SRE skills at Qube Research & Technologies in Hong Kong. A HKU computer science graduate and former founder of StudentBase, he built an edtech platform reaching 17–25k monthly users, led a small engineering team, and achieved 90% test coverage while automating CI/CD and infrastructure with Terraform. His background spans FinTech and life-sciences billing automation, with hands-on work in TypeScript, Go, React, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Redis and observability tooling. Comfortable moving between product-facing front ends and production-critical backend systems, he combines entrepreneurship-era ownership with institutional experience from Credit Suisse and GRAIL. Notably, he authored StudentBase and continues to blend SRE practices with quantitative engineering to deliver reliable, data-driven systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (94)
bank10
monitoring10
corpus10
loan-application10
electron10
typescript10
reinforcement-learning10
azure-portal10
time-series10
virtual-machine10
blockchain10
urdu10
editor9
graphing9
nlp9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hkuturingclub/ChiSunApp
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
One-stop platform for all things Chi Sun College.
Contributions:61 commits, 80 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 10 months
reactstopchisuntypescript
piy0999/CreditSense
Mar 2018 - May 2018
A decentralised credit scoring platform based on Multichain blockchain
Contributions:92 commits, 61 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
blockchaincredit-scoreloan-applicationvirtual-machinebank
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