Ali Shash

Ali Shash

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineering Manager at Statsbomb

  • Education

    • Futures Language School, Cairo, Egypt.

      2009 - 2012
      General Secondary Certificate (Thanaweya Amma)
    • Fairview International School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

      2008 - 2009
    • Cempaka International School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

      2006 - 2008
    • Deutsche Evangeliche Oberschuler (DEO), Cairo, Egypt.

      1999 - 2006
    • The American University in Cairo

      2012 - 2017
      Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronics & Communications Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science
  • Experience

    • Computer Science and Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo

      Sept 2013 - Dec 2013
      Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

      -Delivered sessions and tutorials on coding in C++ for Engineering students.

    • The Electronics and Communications Engineering Association, The American University in Cairo

      Sept 2014 - Jun 2016
      Career and Academic Development Director

      • Organized a variety of different academic tutorial sessions that help students with different topics and software used in the Electronics and Communications Engineering Major like Matlab and Arduino.• Organized career development sessions in collaboration with Siemens Egypt and Innovety about the automation industry and product innovation. • Organized a trip to Valeo Egypt headquarters in collaboration with Valeo Egypt to help students understand and get familiar with the nature of Electronics and Communication jobs in Egypt.• Designed and fabricated – as part of a team - the ECEA Charging Stations currently placed around the AUC Campus. Show less

    • QIQ Qcentris Intelligent Quality GmbH

      Jul 2015 - Sept 2015
      Intern

      Smoke and Regression testing using Tricentis TOSCA Testsuite.

    • The Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo.

      Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
      Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Research and Testing on SAR Analog-to-Digital Converter using Eldo.

    • The Electronics and Communications Engineering Association

      Jun 2016 - May 2017
      President

      • Managed and supervised 6 Directories with a total of 49 members. Directories are: Career and Academic Development, Services, Operations, Treasury, Marketing and Multimedia, and HR.• Introduced the first Annual ECEA AUC Tech Summit aimed at reducing the gap between the academic life and the tech industry, and oversaw the communications with speakers of different companies like Microsoft, Orange and Valeo. Along with supervising the operations and the marketing of the event.• Oversaw the execution and introduction of the ECEA Community project, a crowd monitoring system that allows students to monitor the crowdedness of the popular places on campus.• Oversaw the successful execution of different academic sessions and workshops targeting the enhancement of the technical skills of the Electronics and Communications Engineering Students.• Introduced and oversaw the execution of ECEA Borrow Drawer along with different recreational events like ECEA Sports Day and ECEA Movie Night.• Introduced and oversaw the ECEA Representatives system. Show less

    • Orange Egypt

      Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
      Intern, IN Operations Support
    • Vezeeta.com

      Oct 2017 - Feb 2019

      Integrated - as part of the platform team - vezeeta.com with Payfort, Fawry(payment providers) and Cequens (SMS provider) and Salesforce using C# and .Net Framework Back-End Web Development

      • Back-end Software Engineer

        Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
      • Engineering Intern

        Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
    • StatsBomb

      Apr 2019 - now

      Managing 11 engineers responsible for development of collection apps in Cairo including their development plan, peer feedback, performance reviews,promotions along with their staffing on the different squads of the company. Led 6 Software Engineers including a Principal Engineer, 3 Seniors and aUI/UX Designer across Egypt and UK through product design andimplementation of a React.Js player tracking collection app with a node.jsbackend. An app that allows users to track all players on pitch based on thepredictions of computer vision ML Models Led 2 Software Engineers including a Senior through product design andimplementation for a React.Js labelling app that was used to annotate 10Mdatapoints across 450K frames to generate training data for ML modelsleading to 95%+ accuracy of models. - Designed the 360 collection workflow.- Ran multiple UI/UX experiments and iterated on the collection workflow, UI, keyboard shortcuts to optimize collection speed allowing collection of freeze frames for all events in a soccer match.- Integrated quality process features that lead to collection quality of frames to be more than 96% error free. Integrated ML models including a Faster-RCNN player detection model, KMeansClustering team classification model and a Feature Pyramid Networkpitch detection model into collection app leading to 29% faster collectionand 30% better quality of collected data that is sold to teams includingLiverpool and Manchester City. - Integrated Shot Impact Height collection further improving Statsbomb's industry leading xG model.- Introduced UI/UX revamps to the app, speeding up location collection process by 29%- Oversaw the elimination of collection app induced data bugs.

      • Software Engineering Manager

        Jan 2023 - now
      • Senior Product Manager - Tracking Collection App

        Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
      • Product Manager - Labelling App

        Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
      • Product Manager - 360 Collection App

        Nov 2020 - Jul 2023
      • Product Manager - Computer Vision

        Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
      • Product Manager - Soccer Collection App

        Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Level 1 Football Coach - World Coaches Program

      KNVB
      Aug 2018
    • IBM Big Data Specialist with IBM BigInsights V2.1

      IBM
    • Level 2 Football Coach - World Coaches Program

      KNVB
      Dec 2018
    • Communication for Product Managers

      LinkedIn
      Dec 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

      LinkedIn
      Aug 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Level 3 Football Coach - World Coaches Program

      KNVB
      Aug 2019
    • Transitioning to Product Management

      Lynda.com
      Jun 2019
      View certificate certificate