Ali Ibrahim

Entrepreneur / Rubyist / Startups Evangelist / MVP expert.

Years of professional engineering and development experience and having the privilege to work in leading tech companies around the globe. Previous experiences of working in Lahore (Pakistan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Dubai (UAE).

Previous professional experiences of working with:

• Dubizzle.com (The biggest classified website in the MENA region. Worked as a back-end Python/Django developer)

• RapidiOnline.com (Service to provide data exchange services from Microsoft Navison to SalesForce Cloud CRM and many more based out of Quillan France)

• AboutUs.org (One of the biggest rails websites)

• UrFilez (www.urfilez.com) Worked as Chief Technical Partner Liaision for a US based music streaming service for the MENA region named UrFilez.

• Vator.tv (An online venue to showcase your new dream project/startup)

• StartupBlvd (www.startupbvd.com) (Connecting startups with investors/advisors)

• AnyCarHire (www.anycarhire.com) (Car rental service for European markets)

• Chat tool for Assembla(www.assembla.com) (Developed a real-time chat service application for Assembla integrated within the main site).

Startups (Co-founded):

• Social Links -- Building intelligent hyperlinks. (http://www.killerstartups.com/web-app-tools/sociallinks-co-more-intelligent-links/)

• Research Nation -- An online marketplace where researchers can sell their researches and other digital documents online. The project was selected for Barcelona Seedcamp in 2011.

• D3velopers (www.d3velopers.com) -- Offshore web & mobile development/design consultancy firm.

Specialties:

Backend:
Ruby, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Django,

FrontEnd:
JavaScript, JQuery, XHTML, CSS,

Databases:
MongoDb, MySQL Cluster (Master/Slave architecture), MemCache, Redis
Automated Testing:
Rspec, Cucumber, Selenium etc.

Searching:
Solr, Sphinx, ElasticSearch etc

Server:
Nginx, Apache, Mongrel, Passenger, Deployment using Capistrano