Ali Safri
Chief Technology Officer (Blockchain, AI and Metaverse)
17.4
Years of Experience
Education
national university of computer and emerging sciences, national university of computer and emerging sciences
Companies
ourpol, avanza innovations, avanza solutions, agility, pwc logistics, itim associates pvt ltd, itim systems pvt. ltd
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Experience
2023 - Present
ourpol
CTO and Co-Founder
2016 - Present
avanza innovations
Chief Technology Officer (Blockchain, AI and Metaverse)
2008 - 2018
avanza solutions
Global Head of Presales and Innovations (Expert blockchain)
2) Managing pool of consultants and presales engineers for engagement across Middle east, APAC and Africa. 3) Mentoring and grooming of the resources. 4) Preparing RFP Responses, preparing and delivering technical presentations, performing demos and POCs and building client trust. 5) Tailoring solutions based on clients requirement to deliver best value for their IT Investment. 6) Managing Estimation process and striking balance with SALES instinct to sell, client appetite and technical resources realism. 7) Advise product teams on new market realities to improve products to remain competitive. 8) Joint presales with Partners including NCR, Avaya and others 9) Product suite includes CRM, ATM Controller, Deposit Solutions, loyalty management, Financial integration, Data warehousing, reconciliation, fraud management, e-statement, prepaid cards, payment gateways, Electronic Fund Transfer, Internet banking, mobile banking, Electronic bill presentment and payments. 10) Leading Avanza team in the Dubai Future Foundation challenge for block chain based solution for reconciliation and settlements for Dubai Smart Office.
2006 - 2008
agility
Technical Team Lead/Technical architect
Managing/Mentoring the onsite technical team, working with the client, offsite product team, Agility management (CIO, Product Manager) in kuwait and other stakeholders. Participate in the steering committee meetings and project review meetings. Working to implement the “Change Requests” Working with CBR Reforms team, operational team and higher executives from CBR to deliver the project as per the specifications along with a wide variety of stakeholders including shipping lines, port authorities, different custom departments, service desk users, clearing agents and traders. Started as a developer and coded highly complex modules of risk management, tariff, contraventions, assessments, examination, securities and manifest and index processing and later promoted to lead and then handling operations. Project Roll out and Managing Support and Operations of the PaCCS system and implementation of the Change Requests using ITIL best practices after the Go Live phase.
2004 - 2006
pwc logistics
Senior Software Engineer
2000 - 2004
itim associates pvt ltd
Senior Software Engineer
Worked as the senior software engineer (Team Lead) leading a team of more then 7 resources to implement the product for a variety of business processes in supply chain domain. Business process analysis by coordinating with UK based clientele and map to product functionalities and raising enhancement in product (liason with product team) and deliver the solutions based on client requirement. Reporting progress to ITIM Management for product implementations. Mentoring technical team and to resolve technical issues and coding frameworks and utility tools to automate manual coding items for accelerating delivery in highly tight timelines.
2000 - 2004
itim systems pvt. ltd
Senior Software Engineer
Experience
21 Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
banking
Blockchain
Consulting
CRM
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Data Warehousing
Design
Ethereum
Hyperledger
Integration
marketing
Mobile
Payment Gateways
Payments
Pre-sales
Presentations
Project Management
Retail
Sales
Senior Software Engineer
Education
2001 - 2004
national university of computer and emerging sciences
MS
Computer Science
1997 - 2000
national university of computer and emerging sciences
BS
Computer Science
