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Ali Mustufa
Shaikh

I build tools, teach developers, and bring people into the room.

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Developer education & AI workshops

I’m a developer advocate and AI educator based between Mumbai and San Francisco. I teach generative AI, APIs and agents through workshops for developers, university students and engineering teams. At Postman, I helped build the Student Programs and founded the Student Leader Program. At Pieces, I worked on GenAI 101 and delivered more than 80 AI workshops.

200KPostman program registrations
318API sessions delivered
10K+Developers taught through GenAI 101

I’m a founding organiser of TensorFlow User Group Mumbai and was a founding organiser of GDG Cloud Mumbai from 2018 to 2024. My work brings developer education into college halls, community meetups and conferences. For organisers, I offer hands-on workshops, keynotes and advice on developer programs.

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Teaching & community

  1. Ali Mustufa Shaikh giving the Google Cloud Community Day Mumbai keynote, with community photos behind him.

    Opening keynote in Mumbai

    Google Cloud Community Day · Mumbai

    Delivering the opening keynote in my home city, with the community and the people behind it on the screen.

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  2. Ali Mustufa Shaikh presenting Mirror with a microphone and laptop on a wood-panelled stage in Istanbul.

    Building Mirror

    Agents & APIs · Istanbul

    Sharing how I built Mirror with Pieces, Codex and Claude. A personal project became a conversation with other developers.

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  3. Ali Mustufa Shaikh leading an API workshop at POST/CON 2024 in San Francisco, with workshop attendees pictured below.

    An API workshop at POST/CON

    POST/CON · San Francisco

    A workshop in San Francisco, helping people put APIs into practice. An editor, a question and something to work through together.

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  4. Ali Mustufa Shaikh holding his mentor trophy at Agentic AI Day in Bengaluru.

    Mentoring at Agentic AI Day

    Agentic AI Day · Bengaluru

    Thirty hours of mentoring: working through Gemini, APIs and agent workflows with teams building something they could demonstrate.

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  5. DevFest Ranchi collage showing the audience, Ali Mustufa Shaikh’s stage selfie and a side-stage view.

    Artificial Memory at DevFest

    DevFest Ranchi · BIT Mesra

    A keynote on Artificial Memory: exploring context, MCP and a voice layer. Then the conversations that happen after the slides end.

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  6. Ali Mustufa Shaikh delivering the IEEE Day keynote at Pillai College, gesturing in front of a projected slide.

    IEEE Day keynote

    IEEE Day · Pillai College

    An early keynote at Pillai College, during my years travelling between college halls and training rooms.

    The earlier years

Recommendations

“A founding member of the Postman Student Programs team and a driving force behind the community taking root at scale. He knows how to hustle smartly to achieve seemingly impossible goals.”

Claire FroelichStudent Programs Manager, Postman

“An amazing community builder. His passion for inclusion in Machine Learning reflected in his talks about Google Crowdsource, from college auditoriums to the TEDx stage.”

Anurag BatraGroup Product Manager, Google

“Ali and his team believed in the brand and took up projects as their own babies. I appreciated their hard work building the community from ground zero.”

Reshma SanghviCommunity Manager, Google

Get in touch

I run workshops on GenAI, APIs and agents, give conference talks, and advise teams on developer programs. Get in touch for a session or a project.

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