Ali Aftab

Senior Engineering Manager

Careem

Apr 2026 - Current (5 months)

Engineering Manager, Sports API

theScore

Mar 2023 - Dec 2025 (2 years 10 months)

• Managed a team of eight Backend Engineers within theScore Media organization, owning some of the highest traffic services powering theScore sports app • Coached and managed team members, providing guidance on their career journey and growth plans and being responsible for their overall performance management • Oversaw the complete re-write of one of the most critical services, and several targeted improvements of many others, realizing massive gains in performance and stability, eventually leading to a much better end-user experience • Pioneered first of its kind load testing framework within the organization, using k6 to help multiple teams deliver on their SLAs • Partnered with Product Owners across the department to help them deliver o

Engineering Manager, Home Client

Twitter

May 2022 - Jan 2023 (9 months)

• Managed a team of ten Client Engineers within the Home Client organization, focused on building and owning the foundational components of the Home Timeline – largest surface area on the Twitter app • Led the team through change during arguably one of the most challenging periods in the company’s history primarily by delivering on and committing to a clear identity for the team and career paths for the team members • Collaborated with other Product-facing Engineering teams to identify opportunities that enable rapid development of new features and provide a more generalized implementation at scale for their growing needs • Spearheaded the team’s quarterly planning cycles and crafted roadmaps with clear and measurable OKRs and took ownershi

Engineering Manager, Growth

Jobber

Jun 2021 - May 2022 (1 year)

• Managed two teams of five Full-Stack Engineers each within the Growth organization spanning all experience levels • Built the Engineering department within Growth from the ground up, drove the hiring process and established two Scrum teams focussed on distinct areas of the Growth funnel; acquisition, activation, retention and monetization • Focussed on building healthy, happy and high performing teams with consistently high output levels and employee engagement scores • Collaborated with Product Owners in defining t he product growth strategy and ensured engineering priorities are included within the roadmap • Reviewed technical feasibility of the proposed roadmap and worked with teams to develop timelines for product development and deli

Engineering Lead

Flipp

Aug 2017 - Jun 2021 (3 years 11 months)

• Led multiple teams of Engineers across different departments within Flipp Engineering; coaching on the culture of quality and engineering best practices • Coached and managed the team’s Junior and Intermediate Engineers, providing guidance on growth plans and being responsible for performance management • Drove the hiring process and interviewed and onboarded several new full-time hires, interns and Co-ops • Reviewed technical feasibility of the roadmap and worked with teams to develop timelines for product development from design to architecture to implementation to release and maintenance • Held regular mentoring sessions and code review discussions with the team members to help keep quality and engineering excellence top of mind while

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Senior Test Engineer

Mar 2016 - Aug 2017 (1 year 6 months)

• Project-primed the Mission Control Software (MCS), the hub of the Aeryon drone-flying experience • Coached and managed the team’s junior Engineers and Co-ops, providing guidance and being responsible for weekly 1:1s and term-end performance reviews • Piloted the Aeryon SkyRanger drone to uncover system issues, focusing on Software-Hardware interaction • Pioneered the introduction of Automated test creation in the Test Engineering organization by liaising with the Software Development team Tech stack: Java, Python, Google Robot, Subversion, Jenkins, Linux

Software Test Specialist II

BlackBerry

Mar 2014 - Mar 2016 (2 years 1 month)

• Led a five-person team within the Applications Test Engineering Organization • Managed and assigned tasks to resources in several global locations • Mentored new employees and interns in the organization by conducting quarterly introductory training sessions and providing support on a consistent basis during their ramp up • Formulated project reports sent out to higher executives and stakeholders • Feature-primed the “Android For Work” solution for BlackBerry Hub in the PIM Productivity Suite, key to the successful and timely launch of the BlackBerry Priv • Programmed and executed automated test cases for the PIM Productivity Suite apps • Collaborated with software developers and project/product managers at BlackBerry in an Agile environm

Software Test Specialist I

BlackBerry

May 2012 - Mar 2014 (1 year 11 months)

Programmed and executed automated test cases for BlackBerry 10 handheld applications • Contributed towards the efforts to transition from manual to automated testing • Trained team members on Keyword based test design through Google Robot Framework and other internal Automation Frameworks to introduce automated testing within the organization • Worked on a six-month assignment in a team assembled to assist the Application domain teams by specifically carrying out context-driven and exploratory style testing to catch defects early • Designed test cases and test plans for all the applications worked on Tech stack worked with: Python, Java, Google Robot, Jenkins, QNX

Software Test Associate (Intern)

BlackBerry

Sep 2010 - Aug 2011 (1 year)

• Received ‘Outstanding’ rating in the final performance evaluation (reserved for top 5% students) • Executed manual and automated; Sanity, Smoke, Release, Regression, Accessibility and Localization testing of various BlackBerry OS Smartphones and PlayBook applications • Captured multiple kinds of device logs and logged numerous bugs discovered during the testing Tech stack worked with: Java, Groovy, Jenkins

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