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CV · updated Jul 2026

Asghar Ali

Engineer-founder. Twenty years of production shipping across enterprise platforms, fintech, and now agentic AI. Chicago-based, globally annoying.

20+
years shipping
9
products live
$100M+
capex avoided
200M+
jobs/week
Experience

Where I've shipped

Nexobe

·Founder · Engineering Lead
Chicago
2025 — present
  • Agentic AI platform — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.0 Flash in production.
  • Multi-agent orchestration (CrewAI, LangChain), RAG, Pinecone.
  • 85% accuracy improvement over rule-based baselines.
  • Cloud-native: Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AWS/GCP.

Intel Corporation

·Senior Software Engineering Manager
Chicago
2017 — 2025
  • Led 20+ engineers across multiple geographies.
  • 200M+ jobs/week across 6,000+ servers.
  • $10M+ annual billing, $100M+ capex avoidance via multi-tenant SaaS.
  • 30% utilization increase via ML-based predictive resource allocation.
  • Led Executive Briefing Center sessions with C-level stakeholders.

Object Edge Inc

·Senior Technical Consultant
Chicago
2016 — 2017
  • 40% API response time reduction.
  • Centralized logging and observability for 20+ microservices.
  • Client-facing delivery and technical consulting.

Earlier roles

·Technical Lead · Senior Consultant
US
2006 — 2016
  • Technical Lead at Capella University — platform serving 30K+ students.
  • Senior Consultant at Express Scripts.
  • Verizon Data Services — processing 10M+ records daily.
Stack

What I reach for

ai & ml
claudegpt-4ogeminicrewailangchainragpinecone
languages
pythontypescriptjavascriptjavagosql
frameworks
reactnext.jsnode.jsfastapispring bootdjango
cloud & infra
awsgcpazuredockerkubernetesterraform
data
postgresmongodbrediselasticsearchkafkaspark
Schooling & awards

Mostly autodidact

2004
B.E. Electrical & Electronics
University of Madras
2018 — 24
5× Intel Engineering Computing Awards
3× Divisional Recognition
every day
Reading · debating · shipping
the internet
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