Zaki Ali
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Square
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZaki Ali is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Berkeley with 15 years of experience applying statistical and ML techniques to large, messy datasets—from radio astronomy surveys to production ML at Square. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley, where he led analysis of >10 TB datasets, invented real-time calibration algorithms, and compressed data volumes tenfold for an international collaboration. At Square he advances ML systems and at times contributes full‑stack work in open-source AI tooling—most recently improving UI, CLI, and backend features for the extensible agent project goose. Zaki blends research rigor (quadratic estimators, covariance weighting, anomaly detection) with hands-on engineering (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, FPGA/GPU pipelines), making him equally fluent in prototyping novel algorithms and deploying them at scale. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex signal-processing problems into robust, production-ready pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley
Hindi
Github Skills (22)
amazon-bedrock10
ui-design10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
bitrock10
cli10
image-processing9
apidoc9
typescript9
typescript-types9
api9
react9
typescripts9
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
block/goose
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 143 reviews, 64 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zaki contributed to various aspects of the `goose` project, including UI enhancements, CLI improvements, and backend logic adjustments. They implemented a feature to add a link to the GitHub project on extension cards, updated the CLI to allow multiple values in options for adding extensions, and addressed a bug related to image processing in the developer MCP. Furthermore, the user was also involved in modifying the Bedrock provider and updating the UI recipes and custom agents.
zakiali/fengwide
Oct 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:47 commits in 1 year
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