ENGINEERING · PRODUCT · AI

Driven by
curiosity.

I’m Misbah Ali. I lead observability and SRE for digital products at Etihad. I connect engineering, customer experience and practical AI.

  • SAFeCertified Practitioner
  • CSMScrum Alliance
  • PMPProject Management Professional
CONNECTED THINKINGENGINEERING × PRODUCT × AI

02 / WHAT I’M DOING NOW

Leading observability.
Building reliability.

CURRENT ROLEEtihad AirwaysDIGITAL PRODUCTS

I lead the observability and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice for Etihad’s digital products. My focus is connecting customer experience, engineering and operations to make digital journeys more reliable.

01 / EXPERIENCE

See the whole journey.

Bring digital experience analytics and production telemetry together to understand where customers encounter friction.

CUSTOMER JOURNEYS · PRODUCT HEALTH
02 / RELIABILITY

Build a shared practice.

Connect product and engineering teams around service health, meaningful signals and a consistent approach to investigating issues.

OBSERVABILITY · SRE
03 / INTELLIGENCE

Turn signals into action.

Use insights and AI-assisted workflows to support investigation, prioritize improvements and learn from production.

INSIGHTS · AI AUTOMATION
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCEOBSERVABILITYRELIABILITY

03 / TOOLS I USE

The tools behind
the thinking.

Across observability, cloud and delivery, my toolkit helps me understand what’s happening, connect the dots and turn ideas into useful work.

01 / OBSERVE

Observability &
digital experience

Connect system behaviour with the customer journey.

  • DDynatrace
  • QMQuantum Metric
02 / BUILD

Cloud &
platforms

Work across the infrastructure behind digital products.

  • AWSAWS
  • AZAzure
03 / CONNECT

Collaboration &
practical AI

Keep delivery, shared knowledge and AI-assisted work connected.

  • JJira
  • CConfluence
  • AIAI-assisted workflows

The question comes first. The tool follows.

04 / MANY PERSPECTIVES

Different lenses.
Better questions.

My work lives where technology meets people. From connected vehicles to airline journeys, I bring engineering depth, product judgement and a habit of learning across boundaries.

Web, mobile, APIs and cloud platforms. I’ve led engineering teams and delivered the systems behind customer journeys in aviation and mobility.

Web & mobileArchitectureTeam leadership

05 / THE JOURNEY

Built in the
real world.

A career connecting software, operations and customer experience. Select a chapter to explore.

2025 to PRESENTEtihad AirwaysObservability & SRE · Digital Products

Leading the observability and SRE practice for digital products. Bringing customer feedback, journey analytics and production telemetry together so teams can understand product health, investigate issues and prioritize improvements.

Product healthObservabilitySREAI automation
2023 to 2025Etihad AirwaysSoftware Engineering

Led backend engineering for web check-in and the mobile app, delivering check-in, boarding passes and travel-document validation with product and operations teams.

Engineering leadershipWeb check-inMobile app
2019 to 2023UdriveSoftware Engineering & IoT

Head of Software Engineering and IoT for a car-sharing platform serving over 500,000 users. Led work spanning customer journeys, payments, connected vehicles and tools for operations teams.

Connected mobilityPaymentsDigital platforms
2018 to 2019ADinBFull Stack Development

Delivered web applications with business, design and technology colleagues, translating user needs into useful features.

Full stackWeb applicationsAgile delivery

06 / HOW I THINK

Connect the dots.
Then build.

I’m drawn to problems that refuse to fit inside one discipline. Good work starts with curiosity and becomes useful through care, evidence and execution.

01

Understand the whole system.

Customer behaviour, the technology underneath, and the people who keep it running.

02

Let evidence lead.

Turn feedback, journey data and telemetry into questions worth answering.

03

Make intelligence practical.

Use AI to investigate, automate and assist, with human judgement in the loop.

CLOUD & APIS · ANALYTICS & OBSERVABILITY · AI WORKFLOWS · CONNECTED MOBILITY

07 / NEXT CHAPTER

Interesting things
start with
a conversation.

Have a question, an idea, or a different perspective?
I’d love to connect.

Let’s talk on LinkedIn
THE SHORT VERSION

ENGINEERING / PRODUCT / AI / CONNECTED SYSTEMS

Misbah Ali

Digital product and technology leader with experience across aviation and mobility. Combining engineering depth, customer-centred product judgement and practical AI automation.

Experience

Etihad Airways Oct 2025 to present
Manager, Product Observability & Reliability
Etihad Airways Nov 2023 to Oct 2025
Manager, Software Engineering (Web Check-In & Mobile App)
Udrive Jun 2019 to Oct 2023
Head of Software Engineering and IoT
ADinB Jun 2018 to Jun 2019
Senior Full Stack Developer

Education & credentials

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
University of Wollongong, 2013–2017

Certified SAFe Practitioner · Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) · Project Management Professional (PMP) · PMI-ACP

Tools & methods

AWS · Azure · Jira · Confluence · Quantum Metric · Dynatrace · AI-assisted workflows · Product analytics · Web, mobile and API platforms

FULL PROFILE ON LINKEDIN