Basit Ali

Basit is a Senior Golang Software Engineer with extensive experience in creating and maintaining scalable back-ends, distributed systems, and production grade APIs.

Basit has a formal background (Bachelor of Science) in software engineering.

His most recent work is in fintech, social-media, and video conferencing.

For the last 6 years, Basit has been working for a Canadian start-up studio and one of its start-ups.

Basit has been programming in Golang for almost 6 years — since 2020.

And, has extensive experience with Amazon AWS, Bash, DigitalOcean, Docker, Linux, Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, TypeScript, etc.

SpaceHost, Canada

#SpaceHost is a fully managed hosting provider for decentralized social-media platforms that I helped develop and architect from scratch. #SpaceHost offers fully managed hosting for more than a dozen software, most of which are federated e.g, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Firefish, Akkoma etc.

At #SpaceHost, I created:

• Multiple scalable back-ends using Go / Golang
• Custom reverse-proxy
• Managed hosting solutions
• Rate Limiting
• Automation tools
• Many, many back-end APIs
• Micro-services
• A number of disturbed systems
• A number of reusable software libraries/ packages
• Decentralized social-media applications
• Payment gateway integrations

• Go / Golang
• APIs ( net/http )
• PostgreSQL
• Linux / Bash Scripting
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Webhooks
• Stripe
• AWS
• DigitalOcean
• Monitoring / Observability
• System Design
• DevOps

Railtown Ventures, Canada

Railtown Ventures is a Canadian quest lab, which turns ideas into great ventures. Here I'm working on a startup called SparkScience, which provides video conferencing and other VoIP solutions.

At SparkScience, I implemented:

• Decentralized video conferencing and VoIP solutions
• Multiple scalable back-ends using Go / Golang
• Micro-services
• Rate Limiting
• A number of disturbed systems
• A number of APIs
• Pub-sub messaging system
• Real-time communications
• Media relay servers

• Go / Golang
• APIs ( net/http )
• WebSockets
• PostgreSQL
• React ( TypeScript/HTML/CSS )
• WebRTC
• VoIP
• Coturn
• Stripe
• AWS
• DigitalOcean
• Monitoring / Observability
• Docker

Intigral, Dubai

Intigral is the leading provider of digital entertainment and sport in the MENA region.

During my time at Intigral I worked on:

• Media streaming services
• Highly scalable APIs
• Micro-services
• Distributed systems
• Content management system
• Monitoring / Observability

• Java
• Kotlin
• Spring Boot
• Web Services ( REST, JAX-WS )
• JDBC
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• AWS

Oraan, Karachi

Oraan is a fin-tech startup that is bridging the gap between conventional saving mechanisms and financial technology to provide simpler financial access and money-management tools.

During my time at Oraan I worked on:

• Fintech solutions
• Highly scalable backends
• Authentication and Authorization systems
• Micro-services
• Monitoring / Observability

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Web Services ( REST, JAX-WS )
• PostgreSQL
• Hibernate
• Keycloak
• Google Cloud Platform

Health at Hand, Dubai

Health at Hand is a Dubai based telehealth startup where patients can take remote video consultations with doctors. I worked as the Lead Android Developer and helped my team solving critical problems like VoIP and creating a successful product.

• Health at Hand
• LiveDoc

• Java
• Android
• WebRTC
• VoIP

NextGenI, Karachi

Next Generation Innovations is a technology solutions company specializing in startups where I worked as Senior Android Developer on delivering various interesting and challenging products.