Ali Ahmed
Dallas,Texas
Summary
Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer II
H-E-B
10.2022 - Current
- Managed a team of up to 4 people, leading daily scrum and reporting to project status to Leads and management
- Led design reviews, facilitating clear communication of technical concepts to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment of software architecture with project goals
- Successfully orchestrated the integration of legacy monolith (C/C++) codebase with morden microservices architecture (Golang)
- Development on Golang microservices template and lead developer on migration to POS logging microservice
- Development of asynchronous REST API communication leveraging libcurl
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM
04.2021 - Current
- OpenBMC group working on the firmware stack for enterprise server machines
- Designed, developed, and tested software applications in Opensource and proprietary environments
- Maintainer for IBM's BMC telemetry/sensors repository
- Expertise with industry standards relating to BMC's and DMTF, especially with Redfish and IPMI
- Led updates to cutting edge RESTful API capable handling 1000s requests/second/server
- Refactor C++ API leading to 30% increased savings in REST operations
- Experience developing asynchronous micro-services using Boost ASIO, D-bus in event-driven environment
- Extensive work in Embedded linux environment using yocto and bitbake
- Debugging several core dumps using gdb, gdbserver, and gdb-multiarch
- Worked with Automated Testing and Benchmarking of Redfish protocol
- Performance & Workload Testing on microservices handling power control and consumption
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II
Ultra Group
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Designed and wrote PXE Network Installer Program from scratch to use modern solutions using C#, Powershell, bash.
- Worked closely with customer to implemented customer-specific adaptions for message handling.
- Prepared training documentation, onboard assignments, and interviewed potential candidates.
- Led Agile project planning and tasking for Sprint Backlogs
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Ultra Group
11.2018 - 01.2021
- Application development on an RTTS event-driven software with pub/sub in C and C++
- Implemented python web app test tool for end-to-end message verification
- Reduced test cycle time by over 50% and enabled automated CICD nightly regression tests
- Conducted SCAP Security benchmark testing and vulnerability patching
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using C++, C#, and Python.
Education
BSE - ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Texas
Austin Austin, TXSkills
- Languages: C, C, Golang Java, Python, Bash, Javascript
- Networking: DHCP, HTTP, TFTP, SSL, Unix Sockets
- Operating System: Unix, Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu
- Web Development: HTML5, JSON, Spring, Django, PostgreSQL, nodejs, Express
- Containers: VMWare eSXI, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes
- IDE: VSCode, Vim, Sublime, Eclipse, Intellij Netbeans
- Management: Jira, version1, Git, GitLab, SVN, Box
Timeline
Software Engineer II
H-E-B
10.2022 - Current
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM
04.2021 - Current
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II
Ultra Group
01.2021 - 04.2021
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Ultra Group
11.2018 - 01.2021
BSE - ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Texas