Abdullah Ali

Orchestrated core APIs refactors used for sending 2m+/day emails

Implemented authenticated, secure, RESTful and highly scalable APIs and UI Clients in NodeJS, Express, MobX, React 16.8 and MongoDB, React and Redux

Engineered an end-to-end testing framework across the full platform (20+ APIs, 5 UI Clients), ensuring breaking changes are blocked from being released, utilising Docker and CircleCI (Orbs)

Led consolidation of 8 microservices into 1; resulted in over £55k in annual savings

Reduced platform's flaky test occurrences by 90% by improving tests and reducing dependencies

Coached and mentored junior developers to extend technical knowledge of core technologies

Revamped the analytics system to track email sends and open rates using NodeJS and React

Key technologies: JavaScript, Docker, Heroku, NodeJS, React, Redux, MongoDB, RabbitMQ

Launched the new BBC Sounds service (bbc.co.uk/sounds), enjoyed by 2.9m+/week active users, leveraging React, NodeJS and Redux

Integrated recommendation engines to customise user experienced and enable content exploration

Created composable components library using atomic design for consistent platform layouts

Reduced manual testing by 80% by mentoring QA engineers to introduce an automated test framework and integrating it into CI/CD (CirlceCI)

Achieved a 92% test coverage by using TTD and DBB using Mocha, Chai, Enzyme and Gherkin

Integrated the A/B testing and analytics to increase new features’ business impact

Improved mobile application performance by 20% by utilising GraphQL to reduce data fetching

Key technologies: AWS, React, NodeJS, CircleCI, GraphQL, Redux, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB

Build a framework to enable Fortune 500 customers businesses to connect their APIs across all their disciplines, which now generates a £5m+/month revenue

Team lead in API development in Ruby on Rails (Ruby 2.4.1, Rails 5) and NodeJS (ES6, NodeJS 8, Promises, Streams) as well as leading agile/SCRUM sessions

Sped up build pipeline by 60% by replacing Jenkins and integrating new a CI/CI pipeline (CircleCI)

Mentoring and training developers to improve technical knowledge in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails

Enabled easy product integration by packaging portable software using Docker, RabbitMQ, MongoDB and NodeJS, reducing integration time from 1½ days to 15 minutes

Reduced developer onboarding by 30% by introducing a documentation afternoon once a fortnight

Key technologies: MongoDB, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, CircleCI, Docker

Delivered an Identity Resolution Platform to web scrape 10m+ resume data and merging them with structured and natural language processing APIs using NodeJS, Spark, AWS and RabbitMQ

Setup a highly customisable build pipeline leveraging Jenkins, Docker and NodeJS

Managed multiple product hackathons to explore analyse trade-offs between technologies

Mentored junior developers in in Object-Oriented, Functional Programming and Web Development using various technologies, most notably NodeJS (ES6, Promises, Streams) and Ruby on Rails

Key technologies: NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL

Integrated BrainTree’s new payment system, processing £1m+/week in Christmas period

Rewrote a Ruby on Rails monolith into reliable, RabbitMQ-driven NodeJS microservices

Increased test coverage from 60% to 90%, resulting in a more stable platform

Introduced full stack microservices and backend APIs in NodeJS and Ruby on Rails

Engineered the new sticky9.com checkout system with Ruby on Rails, React and CSS

Increased website reliability by enabling autoscaling of web servers and queue workers

Key technologies: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Sidekiq

Developed a financial tracking system as an input to product recommendation engines using Ruby on Rails and AWS (EC2, SQS), tracking 100k+/day user events

Organised and led weekly agile sessions and working lunches to advocate TDD practices using RSpec, Cucumber and pair programming

Key technologies: Ruby on Rails, AWS (EC2, SQS), Slack Bots, RSpec, Cucumber

Developed web scraping services and APIs using NodeJS and Ruby on Rails to analyse over 130k+ software vulnerability records

Turned dissertation project into a research tool for the Centre of Software Reliability and university professors for their on-going research

Key technologies: Ruby on Rails, RabbitMQ, NodeJS, CSS

Built SMS campaign systems for the ITV channel for the relaunch of their Britain's Got Talent and Red Nose Day mobile applications

Contributed to the redevelopment of the donation system for JustTextGiving by Vodafone, raising £50m+ in 1 week

Created a concurrent queuing system using Resque and Upstart to monitor the queues with MySQL and Redis databases

Key technologies: MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Resque, Bootstrap CSS