Ali Konain

Senior full-stack engineer in Lahore. I ship AI that holds up in production and automate the tedious parts at scale.

Let me guess. You're hiring, you're busy, and this isn't the first portfolio you've opened today.

Close? Turn on JavaScript and I'll tell you a great deal more.

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The work

Four case files. Take your time choosing. I'll be watching which one you keep coming back to.

Speechify, ongoing
AI ad pipeline
Speechify's marketing team was making AI ads by hand, at roughly four hours each. I led the move from manual prompting to an internal app with 21 ad-format pipelines that can produce up to 15 ads in ten minutes.
Read the case file: AI ad pipeline
Speechify, mvp build
The 300,000-book pipeline
A new book-listening app needed a real catalog on day one. I built the Python tooling that collected 300,000+ public-domain books and handled their metadata, audio, subtitles, topics and genres.
Read the case file: The 300,000-book pipeline
Speechify, live
BookTok
BookTok is a book-reading app, live at booktokapp.com, that I build with the team at Speechify. Its whole database lives in Supabase, with Row Level Security and Edge Functions doing the heavy lifting.
Read the case file: BookTok
MonetizeMore, 2023 to 2024
PubGuru Ad Inspector
A Chrome extension that lets website publishers see why an ad isn't behaving. I worked on its redesign, built the ad overlay for debugging, and fixed the recurring setup bugs publishers kept reporting.
Read the case file: PubGuru Ad Inspector

Think of a number from 1 to 63.

Keep it to yourself. Tick every card your number appears on, and I'll tell you what it is.

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The set list

5+ years in production, most recent first.

June 2024 to nowSenior Software Engineer, SpeechifyReader features, audiobook ingestion, AI ad generation, and tooling that processed 300,000+ public-domain books.
January 2023 to July 2024Software Engineer, MonetizeMoreRebuilt a publisher ad-inspection tool from a Figma redesign and added an ad overlay for debugging.
June 2021 to December 2022Full-Stack Developer, i2cCard-management modules for client-facing fintech apps, in Java, Spring Boot and React.
November 2020 to March 2021Full-Stack Developer Intern, AI and Multidisciplinary Research LabAngular front end, Django back end, deployed and maintained on a remote server.

Studied at Istanbul Gelisim University (MBA) and PUCIT (BS Information Technology).

The back room arcade

Where it started: small browser games I built in 2020 while learning JavaScript. They still run. Best on a laptop with a keyboard.

The sealed prediction

I sealed a prediction about your visit the moment you arrived. Open the envelope when you're ready.

For my last trick, I'll predict what you do next: you'll get in touch.

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Ali Konain

The work

AI ad pipeline

The 300,000-book pipeline

BookTok

PubGuru Ad Inspector

Think of a number from 1 to 63.

The set list

The back room arcade

The sealed prediction

Tonight's program