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Ali Ibrahim

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his
mission (
he
chose to accept it):
Fill in the gaps to make teams more effective

Ruby & Rails

React

Rails upgrades

Learn enough to be dangerous

Root cause analysis

Noteworthy Achievements:
  • Mentored client team in adopting Shape Up practices to build foundational features for their new platform
  • Organized communication between teams and product managers to ensure separate work streams would result in cohesive solutions
  • Led team of four double agents on Rails upgrade of large, monolithic application from Rails 4.2 to 5.0
  • Created tooling and processes for the Rails upgrade to enable future upgrades in-house
  • Helped start Test Double's first employee resource group
Dossier Quotes:
Ali, and team, was more autonomous and effective than a consultant has any right to be. They understood the work, discovered context, and found the right people to be effective immediately. They delivered code and culture to make our teams and systems better.
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Reports from the field:
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Zero downtime Rails upgrades
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Stop ignoring your Rails (and Ruby) deprecations!
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Dual booting a Rails upgrade with Docker and CI
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One year growing the People of Color Employee Resource Group
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Overcoming flaky tests in Ruby with environment variables
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Double Agent Profile: Ali Ibrahim
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Guide to incremental Rails upgrades for smoother transitions
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Using CockroachDB with Rails
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Improving dev experience with Overmind
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