# Ali Hussain

> Building @ Caspian

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alihussain

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Caspian
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California

### Staff Software Engineer @ Hummingbird
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hummingbird
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California (Remote)

### Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Shipping bits so that we can ship freight

### Software Engineering Intern @ Flexport
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
• Part of the marketplace team, in charge of building the models and infrastructure to support the pricing and procurement of freight
• Focused on Frontend work in ReactJS with Flux and Relay
• Built backend features in Ruby on Rails with GraphQL

### Software Engineering Intern @ BuildZoom
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
• Built ETL pipelines to aggregate and analyze localized building permit information
• Designed an NLP model to assess the usefulness of reviews left on the website. It was used to automatically approve and reject reviews without human intervention
• Worked on web features using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS

### Web Development Intern - Chat Bots Team @ Kik Interactive, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario
• Developed a live monitoring and alert system to track the chat bot platform's health in real-time. Implemented a front-end dashboard to visualize the information
• Designed a model to quantify the popularity of bots using daily metrics. The results were used to automatically organize the app's "Top Bots" page and to provide insight to the internal teams
• Developed backend APIs in Python and front-end features in AngularJS
• Updated and maintained our public Python and NodeJS bot repositories

### Release & QA Intern @ Kik Interactive, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Waterloo, Ontario
• Led testing efforts for multiple new features
• Designed and executed black box testing plans for unreleased features
• Collaborated with project leads and developers throughout testing
• Documented over 100 software defects using Github issue tracker


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science
University of Waterloo

### Mathematical Sciences (Statistics)
Nanyang Technological University Singapore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahussain5

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Last updated: 2026-04-05