Kamal M. Ali

Hello 👋!
Welcome to my personal website! This website helps me document important milestones along my career, primarily through photos.

Extracurriculars

Q-SITE

*UofT. Attending Q-SITE 2024 as an organizer (bottom row, 3rd from left).*

Q-SITE is a Canadian quantum conference+hackathon targetted mainly to undergrads and early grad students.

Hack Frost NL

Hack Frost NL is a student initiative that started in October 2020 out of my desire to start Memorial University's first large-scale hackathon.
I led the Hack Frost NL team for the first two years. The first hackathon attracted more than 130 students, 10 sponsors, and 5 partners. See the second hackathon's 33 projects here.

Paradigm Hyperloop

SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, Los Angeles, July '19. I can be seen peeking in the back row on the right (link).

Hackathons / Conferences Attended

UWaterloo: Qiskit Fall Fest 2026

QHACK 2024 Conference

Discussing Grover's with Guillermo at Xanadu's Headquarters!

My face when im caught by surprise 🙈

Bounce Health Hackathon 2022

Memorial. We won 2nd place!

McGill AI Hackathon 2022 (MAIS Hacks)

McGill. Won 2nd place. project.

MUN Coders Community

Memorial. Chairing a coding compeitition.

TEK Basketball: a project at MakeUofT2020

UofT. Project.

LIFE Design Competition 2019

Memorial. A photo of my team, followed by a GIF of me dropping the weight on our design

IEEE Xtreme Coding 13.0 (2019)

Memorial. A 24-hour coding competition (1st from right). I later participated in 15.0 (2021) and organized 16.0 (2022).

Experience

DevOps Developer at Siemens

Saskatoon | Sep 2023 - Jul 2026

Last day at Siemens

From a work trip in Grenoble, France (2025)
- Gained strong experience in numerous DevOps concepts and tools.
- Supported 100+ developers, led projects, and mentored new team members.
DevOps Developer Intern at Nuance (Microsoft)

Montreal | Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
- I was lucky to have my last internship at Nuance (Microsoft), where I led a major automation project to help the company transitions into Microsoft's infrastructure.
- The automated documentation pages are created in Azure DevOps by running a python tool in an ACI container with data gathered using Terraform output files and azure SDK. The page documents info about a K8s cluster that gets automatically updated with each deployment.
Hardware Support Co-op at Nokia

Ottawa | Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
- During my time at Nokia, I was deep within the IP Department working on Nokia's 7250 Interconnect Router.
- Thanks to my time there, I got introduced to the technologies used in networking across different layers.
- I also became very familiar with reading schematics and performed numerous soldering/reworking for small components like 0402 resistors.
- I usually performed signal integrity tests by simulating traffic on each router port and verified the results using oscilloscopes and spread spectrum analyzers.
Research and Design Co-op at Memorial University

St. John's | Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
- During my time at Memorial University's Industrial Outreach Office, I was responsible for delivering two research and design projects on my own.
- The first one involved coming up with experiments to qualitatively describe the de-icing properties of a cleaning product. I enjoyed designing the experiments and solving problems on my feet.
- The second project involved learning and conducting heat transfer analysis on a prototype for design verification. I enjoyed independently applying my calculus knowledge to optimize the model.

Awards

2022

Fry Family Foundations's leadership scholarhip

Work Term Presentation Award (Fun story: i presented during the backup slot, so i wasnt eligible for the award, but the coordinator really liked the presentation and decided to nominate me for it, which i'm grateful for!)

Dean's list (front row, first from right)
2019

Emera scholarship

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