Ali AbdullaOperations Leader

Ali Abdulla

System designer and full stack operator

  • Successfully led an app company with 13 apps pricing $100M+ in seller inventory through its acquisition
  • Managed 2 warehouses, from shipping container to Amazon fulfillment center
  • Writes the code, ships the containers, hires the engineers, negotiates the contracts
  • Designs the primitives the next wave of AI will build on top of
See the work → Resume
Portrait of Ali Abdulla in a fulfillment warehouse
The numbers

Results, not adjectives

$100M+seller inventory repriced for 15,000 sellers by KiOui-Apps
$10M+inventory managed: purchase order → warehouse → sale
3businesses managed
1corporate buyout (KiOui-Apps)
85%less developer support time at KiOui-Apps
Roles

What Ali ran

Director of Operations · 2018–2020 · Acquired

KiOui-Apps + Ki-Magic

Ran the product and team behind a repricer for 15,000 Amazon sellers.

  • Designed the product, built the front end, led 5 engineers
  • Cut developer support time 85%
  • Sold KiOui's pricing data to Princeton, then negotiated the corporate buyout
Case study
Director of Operations · 2020–2021

Sprite Beat

Ran Amazon operations from factory to fulfillment center.

  • Ran 2 warehouses and the Amazon accounts: tens of millions in revenue
  • Planned the containers, set up receiving, ran repricing
  • Wrote the response that defeated Coca-Cola’s copyright cease-and-desist
Case study

Also: Ali's own Amazon & eBay business since 2016 · earlier builds: price-difference and real-estate tools

Full stack operator

One operator across every layer

A full stack developer builds software from top to bottom. A full stack operator does the same across the business stack.

The full stack of a business Five connected layers Ali has run: Data, Software, Operations, Supply chain, and Deals, with a feedback loop from results back to data.The full stack of a business · Ali Abdulla · aliabdulla.com/ · CC BY 4.0 Measure · adapt · repeat Data Software Operations Supply chain Deals The full stack of a business Five connected layers Ali has run: Data, Software, Operations, Supply chain, and Deals, with a feedback loop from results back to data.The full stack of a business · Ali Abdulla · aliabdulla.com/ · CC BY 4.0 Measure · adapt · repeat Data Software Operations Supply chain Deals
What is a full stack operator? →
UTOPS · Universal Theory Of Performant Systems

Value to infinity and beyond

When code is cheap, design is the bottleneck.

Five axioms of performance

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    Axiom 1Deeply OsmoticSoak up what matters
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    Axiom 2Well NetworkedA web of different engines
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    Axiom 3IterativeTry small, repeat
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    Axiom 4SpecificFocus. Cut waste
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    Axiom 5Highly ComputationalIntelligence × hard work
Read UTOPS →
UTOPS · Success Fundamentals

Success is doing things others can’t, towards value

Explore the Fundamentals →
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Hiring? Let's talk.

Three ways to hire Ali

Leadership

Operations leadership

  • COO, VP or Head of Operations, GM
  • Companies with complex operations
  • Factory to fulfillment center, 2 warehouses, a buyout
Advisory

Systems & design advisor

  • Find where performance leaks
  • Choose the primitives: data, processes, incentives, interfaces
  • Amazon operations, pricing and repricing, support automation, AI
Technical

Product & technical lead

  • E-commerce software: repricing, seller tools, Amazon APIs
  • Front end and UI design, hiring and leading engineers
  • LLM fleet orchestration and optimization
Contact Ali → Resume