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Ali Ismail

Director of Engineering

Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands15 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple teams at Uber for product lifecycle management.
  • Managed FinTech teams at AWS focusing on compliant data solutions.
  • Delivered scalable billing systems at Booking.com.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in Cloud Computing and Fintech.

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AJAXAndroidAngularJSBPMNBusiness IntelligenceC++DatabasesEJBEclipseHTMLHibernateIntegrationJBoss Application ServerJDBCJPA

About

Currently at Uber, I serve as an Engineering Manager within the Developer Platform organization, leading multiple teams responsible for Development Blueprints that streamline Uber’s product lifecycle—from ideation and launch to post-production reliability—enabling feature liveness and global scalability. Previously at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I led several FinTech and Developer Platform teams focused on compliant data solutions and developer productivity products such as Cloud9 and CodeCatalyst IDEs. Before that, at Booking.com, I managed the Payment Billing and Core Infrastructure teams, delivering scalable billing systems and developer tools supporting hundreds of internal services worldwide. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (2008) and began my career as a software developer, progressively advancing into leadership roles across global technology organizations.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Uber

Engineering Manager II

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

  • Empowering Uber developers to create trip-obsessed experiences

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Manager - AWS

Oct 2022Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Leading teams that are responsibilities involve overseeing the development of multiple products with a focus on enhancing the customer experience within AWS services. Among these products, two are specifically designed to serve external customers, namely the AWS Cloud9 Service and the IDE Widget on CodeCatalyst IDEs. In addition, I am leading the development of the CloudEditor, which targets all AWS Consoles

Amazon

Software Development Manager - Fintech

Jan 2022Sep 2022 · 8 mos · Amsterdam Area

  • Managing multiple tax and data warehouse teams of data engineers, software developers, business intelligence engineer, and technical product managers.
  • Teams are responsible for:
  • Data ingestion, quality controls, including data compaction and completeness from various complex Amazon internal systems/products into our massive tax/accounting data warehouse platform.
  • On top of our data warehouse platform, we build platforms and other reporting solutions to enable business to comply with the mandatory tax regulations globally.
  • Work on strategic platform initiatives that reduce the time required to make rule changes for new tax regulations and business launches in the future.

Booking.com

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2019Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

  • Manage, lead, and mentor infrastructure team in developer experience track that is responsible for building an internal ecosystem in Java stack to help and facilitate building business services (serving over 800 production service) on internal bare-metal servers and our hybrid container infrastructure.
  • We provide the tools to communicate with Booking infrastructure and provide features like monitor, logs, events, needed Kubernetes templates, Helm charts, and Java docker images to manage the lifecycle of these business services and measuring code quality using Sonarqube.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Focusing on the quality metrics and performance of our components.
  • Manages retrospectives, backlog, sprint planning, and defining the team’s objectives/milestones.
  • Holds and leading the recurring meeting with our stakeholders and product managers discussing our long-term planning, progress, challenges, and priorities of the deliverables.
  • Leading track wise initiatives.
  • Provide needed support technically and for the personal growth of my team members while holding regular 1on1s.
  • Responsible for team performance and calibration and hiring good talent for the teams.

Senior Software Developer

Apr 2018Jan 2019 · 9 mos

  • Building and managing Helm charts defined for our applications along with available/needed sidecars.
  • Building various Booking libraries that work at high scale with our microservices.
  • Building and maintaining Continous Integration pipelines to ensure reliability across different components.
  • Ensuring the success of Java services for Containersed applications using our internal built-in deployment tools to facilitate multi-cluster deployment for Kubernetes that hosted inhouse or in AWS Cloud. Same thing for bare-metal as well
  • Manages SonarQube to ensure quality and standards of our Java code at Booking

Coolgames

Senior Backend Developer – Java

Apr 2017Mar 2018 · 11 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

  • Part of backend team who is responsible for developing different frameworks and engines for games which in turn published to our portals in addition to other providers like Facebook, line, ..etc.
  • These toolkit and backend engines are built to high scale to be efficient, fast and reliable using the powerful asynchronous PlayFramework armed with Akka toolkit for more reliable reactive systems, Amazon AWS, S3, Cassandra, RedisDB, ElasticSearch...etc.

Ejada

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Apr 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Saudi Arabia

  • Selected Projects:
  • Develop system for legal affairs department at Border Guard. The system automates the workflow and stores cases managed by the department.
  • o Technologies: JEE, JSF2.1, PrimeFaces, WrapBootStrap, RESTful web services, Hibernate and Oracle Database 11g, Web Logic application server.
  • o Role: System Designer and Senior Software Engineer.
  • Develop system for military intelligence department at Border Guard. The system manages communication with agents and storing information in the system.
  • o Technologies: JEE, JSF2.1, PrimeFaces, WrapBootStrap, RESTful web services, Hibernate and Oracle Database 11g, Web Logic application server.
  • o Role: System Designer and Senior Software Engineer.
  • Develop airline reservation system for Saudi Border Guard. The system’s architecture solved the challenge of seat selections and reservation management across clustered environment with high availability. Using Dijkstra’s algorithm implied efficient and faster searching for optimal path for travelers.
  • o Technologies: JEE, JSF2.1, RichFaces4, Hibernate and Oracle Database 11g, Web Logic application server.
  • o Role: Business Analyst, System Designer and Senior Software Engineer.

Unilever

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Apr 2014Mar 2015 · 11 mos · Egypt

  • Develop a series of business intelligence application to automate and speed up the Sales and Operations Planning cycle.
  • Technologies: JBoss Server, Netbeans, JPA and Oracle Database, Business Intelligence Techniques, Maven, PrimeFaces, JSF, EJB 3, JEE, Apache POI.
  • Role: Technical team lead with team of 6.

Ejada

Senior Software Engineer

May 2010Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Saudi Arabia

  • Selected Projects:
  • Develop human capital management solution for Saudi Border Guard with e-Transaction services and fully customized Workflow Engine built from scratch.
  • o Technologies: JEE, JSF2.1, RichFaces4, Hibernate and Oracle Database 11g.
  • o Role: Business Analyst, System Designer and Senior Software Engineer.
  • Develop recruitment system for Saudi Border Guard that serves more than 27,000 users. System guarantees high availability by applying stress tested using Apache JMeter.
  • o Technologies: JEE, JSF2.1, RichFaces4, Hibernate and Oracle Database 11g.
  • o Role: Business Analyst, System Designer and Software Engineer.
  • Develop human capital management solution embedded with workflow cycles built using BPEL for Saudi Fund for Development.
  • o Technologies: JEE, Ext GWT 2.1, Hibernate, Oracle SOA Suite 11.1, BPEL 2.0, Web logic application server 10.3.3, Oracle DB 11g.
  • o Role: Software Developer, Responsible for data migration, helped a little in administration and installation of Web logic servers.

Integrated solution for ports

Software Engineer

Dec 2009May 2010 · 5 mos · Alexandria, Egypt

  • As a Junior Software Engineer I believe I had a good experience with successful stories in lovely environment with good people.

Education

Faculty of Engineering Alexandria University

Very good with degree of honor — Computer Science and System Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2008

Mubarak Topper School

Jan 2001Jan 2003

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