# Ali Aljufairi

> I build reliable systems across cloud platforms, backend services, automation and practical AI. Cloud & platform engineer · Bahrain.

Computer engineering taught me how systems fit together. My professional work has taken that foundation into cloud infrastructure, platform delivery, data products, automation, and AI tools that people can actually use.

- Site: https://ali-portfolio-studio.vercel.app/
- GitHub: https://github.com/ali-aljufairi
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-aljufairi/

## Selected work

- Sorami (Language learning with useful AI · 2024 – now): A set of connected tools for learning Japanese, started during a generative-AI bootcamp and kept growing since.
  - Live site: https://sorami.aljufairi.org/
  - Source: https://github.com/ali-aljufairi/free-genai-bootcamp-2025
- Museum voice assistant (AWS Cloud Innovation internship · 2022): Museum visitors needed answers on the spot. A cloud voice assistant answers their questions, and a web tool lets staff manage what it says.
- Real-time recruiting platform (AWS Cloud Innovation internship · 2023): A serverless recruiting platform with live updates for users, connected to a CV-scoring system.
- Accelerator data acquisition (SESAME synchrotron, Jordan · 2023): Researchers needed the SESAME electron accelerator's data collected and processed quickly enough to work with.

## Journey

- 2019 – 2024, Manama, Bahrain: BSc Computer Engineering, University of Bahrain. Processors, networks, cloud computing and web development.
- 2020 – 2022, Remote: Freelance full-stack engineer. Microservices, testing and CI/CD in Python, TypeScript and PHP on AWS, with Docker.
- 2022 – 2023, Manama, Bahrain: Cloud Innovation Intern, Amazon Web Services. Two internships building serverless products: a museum voice assistant and a real-time web platform.
- 2023, Salt, Jordan: Software & Data Acquisition Intern, SESAME. Data communication and processing software for a synchrotron light source.
- 2024, Manama, Bahrain: AWS Machine Learning program, BIBF. ML fundamentals, MLOps, data warehousing and data engineering.
- 2024, Kagawa, Japan: Cloud engineer. GitLab CI/CD deploying to ECS on Fargate, auto-scaling behind Route 53 and load balancers, and cost tuning.
- Now, Bahrain: Senior Analyst, Innovations & Process Automation. Aviation. Building applied AI, automation, analytics and reusable delivery foundations for operations.

## More

- Cloud & platform: AWS from Lambda to ECS and Fargate, containers and Kubernetes, networking, identity and infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Software: Backend services in Go, Python, TypeScript and Java; React and Next.js front ends; real-time systems over WebSockets.
- Delivery: CI/CD in GitLab, GitHub Actions and Jenkins, observability, and the small automations that keep systems boring to run.
- Practical AI: RAG, computer vision and voice interfaces, used where they make a tool genuinely more useful.
- Award: Bahrain Council award for a project supporting people with determination
- Award: Second place, INNOV8 hackathon, with an AWS-based answer to an SDG 8 challenge
- Award: Second place among 75 university projects, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Award
- Places: 30 prefectures of Japan, and beyond Japan China, South Korea, Jordan, Türkiye, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Iran.