Ali is a Technical Solutions Architect, and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, with over two decades worth of battle scars earned as a Software Engineer, Technical Architect, Quant Developer, and Technical Trainer in the Professional IT Services, Decision Intelligence, FinTech, Quantitative Finance, Applied AI/ML, and EdTech industries.
He serves as Principal Technical Architect at AxOps, a boutique technology services consultancy based in Madrid, Spain.
He specialises in Design, Implementation, and Delivery of Big Data and Cloud Data Solutions, and setting up Data Engineering practices across Architecture, Design, Development & Deployment. - A lifetime learner and problem-solver who loves being thrown in the deep end, thrives on continuous improvement, eliminating inefficiencies and enabling ideal outcomes. - An effective communicator of requirements, analyses, and results, verbally and in writing, to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. - Active listening and mediation skills to identify critical requirements and build consensus. Extensive experience teaching and presenting in public, corporate and academic settings. - Strong quantitative, analytical and infrastructure-agnostic engineering skills in Python, C/C++, Java, SQL, Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. - Demonstrable adaptability to any tech stack in any data-driven industry vertical, with a particular affection for leveraging data to inform algorithmic decision-making in financial markets, digital transformation, business and decision intelligence. - Extensive experience working with globally distributed, cross-functional teams of all sizes. Background: A quantitative thinker by nature, and an entrepreneur at heart, Ali has frequently found himself in technically intense engagements throughout his career. Obsessed with mathematics from a young age, Ali spent his youth educating himself in x86 Assembly, C/C++ and Calculus, before receiving a formal education in the same - a life experience that crafted a future in self-employment, and opened doors to many exciting opportunities in Big Data. His obsession with problem-solving worsened with age, breeding creations involving anything from algorithmic horse race betting, network threat analysis, and disease risk classification, to financial trading and portfolio management algorithms that went on to IPO as investable indices at Darwinex. He thrives on solving complex, seemingly impossible problems, is relentless in the pursuit of intellectual greatness, and strives hard to break his own standards, every minute of every day. His belief firmly rooted in there being no “I” in “Team”, Ali has a strong track record of inspiring morale, productivity, and performance by championing self-awareness and family-like team spirit, in multi-disciplinary teams of data, engineering, DevSecOps, and management professionals. He has strong stakeholder-management skills, having worked closely with C-Suite leaders, clients, engineering and cross-functional teams of all sizes. When he can, he soulfully disconnects to a blissful dimension full of guitars, creative design, books and (occasionally) DSLR cameras, all the while consuming copious amounts of English breakfast tea.
