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Est. 2005 · Chicago · CST

the engineer-founder
in residence at Nexobe

Asghar Ali. Twenty years of shipping. Ten products shipped. I write code that makes money and essays that make noise — you can buy both on this website.

10
products · shipped
200M+
jobs/week · shipped
$100M+
capex · avoided
6,000+
servers · orchestrated
Asghar Ali
2005 — present
Asghar Ali
available
“ship the damn thing”
meanwhile,
Now · on the workbench

What I'm actually shipping

The active product surfaces: one primary platform, paid iOS utilities, release pages, and this site.

Ships · 15 so far

Things I've built

Every one has a buy page where you get the full source — not a SaaS seat. Two are my own live products; the rest are source for sale, including six iOS utilities in TestFlight.

See all 15
…and then
Writing · long-form

Things I couldn't shut up about

One essay a month, roughly. Fork them, argue with them, improve them.

Made in Chicago with too much coffee. © 2026 Asghar Ali.
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