Ali Ansari Email & Phone Number

Hammersmith, London

Betfair is the world‟s largest international online sports betting provider and pioneered the betting exchange in 2000. Driven by cutting-edge technology, Betfair enables customers to choose their own odds and bet against each other. The company now processes over five million transactions a day from its three million registered customers around the world. In addition to sports betting, Betfair offers a portfolio of innovative products including casino, exchange games and poker.Responsible for day-to-day activities to improve our infrastructure, monitoring, tooling and processes. Research and development of tooling and/or processes to enable delivery and infrastructure teams. Oversees overall systems deployment of applications to production and provide support when required. Participating in and promoting the Betfair DevOps community.

Hammersmith, London

Responsible for successful delivery of applications into development and production environments. My main duties include providing a client facing customer focused product delivery service, providing high quality product in agreed timelines, aiming for "right first time, every time" result and driving continuous improvement across the team.

Hammersmith, London

Responsible for providing support for a range of Betfair's Exchange and Sportsbook products and services. First point of call for managing any product related queries and working on incidents/tickets until resolution.

Intranet support and Linux backend engineer with five years experience in global IT roles. Experienced SharePoint 2007 consultant in customizing team sites through Web technologies. System Administrator responsible for maintaining and supporting the Atlassian Wiki application, used for team collaboration and document management across the enterprise. Administering backend Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Web servers in supporting Intranet services that run on Metadot, an open source portal and content management software. Also, SharePoint consultant in providing end-user support and training solutions through building customised sections within the corporate homepage.

Developing new systems as well as maintaining existing installations. Our projects ranged from small feature enhancements and bug fixes, to major performance improvements to enable higher throughput and quicker turnarounds across the operational teams. My last project at Alchemetrics was to build a managed marketing system for a major media company, to increase subscriptions sales and improve consumer data captured through multi-channel marketing activities. Worked for clients such as The Telegraph, Nikon, EMAP, Claritas, Abacus, Telewest and Age Concern.

Business & technical analyst, gathering system requirements for the design & development of marketing automation solutions. The post involved building automated data receipt and cleansing mechanism using MySQL, Perl and Shell scripting.

Duties included assisting system engineers in monitoring the movements and transactions of computer parts on ICL database system.

Provided a quality repair and maintenance service to a variety of clients in the United Kingdom:- EPOS Point of Sale system maintenance- Leading a small team of IT support individuals- Train and support new engineers

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

Awarded the 'Wheelwrights' prize in recognition of an excellent performance in the 1994 examinations.

Btec, Computer Programming

'A' Levels, Mathematics (Pure, Applied, Combined)