Suleyman Ali

I build AI agents, and the developer platforms that ship them. TomTom, Amsterdam.

Built with the TomTom Maps SDK for JavaScript, which I helped take public.

How this map is built
  • A globe projection, with labels, borders and points of interest stripped from the base map.
  • A watercolour look from a shader pass, through the SDK’s map-effects plugin, in a day and a dusk palette.
  • The route is drawn on as one line of curved legs, after the camera flies in from the globe.
  • The map only loads as it scrolls into view, and skips its animation if you prefer reduced motion.
  • The list below is the keyboard and screen-reader version of the map.

Places

  1. May 2026
  2. Jul 2026

    WeAreDevelopers World Congress, as booth staff for TomTom. Read more

  3. Sep 2026
  4. Sep 2026
  5. Oct 2026
  6. Oct 2026
  7. Oct 2026
  8. Oct 2026

Work

  • TomTom Maps SDK for JavaScript

    Engineer · 2022–2023, 2025–now

    Took the SDK from an internal monorepo to a public GitHub repo in February 2026, and designed a release flow that can’t ship unreleased builds into the public docs. The map above runs on it.

  • Production ownership

    Owner · 2024–now

    Started my team’s Terraform platform: no stored cloud secrets, a plan on every pull request, and production applies the exact plan dev applied. Three other engineers have since shipped on it without touching CI. Before that, on-call runbooks, threat models and pentest fixes for docs.tomtom.com and My TomTom.

  • Snap to Roads API

    Engineer · 2026

    Reconstructs the road a vehicle drove from its GPS trace. I designed and load-tested a Kubernetes deployment of its C++ service, and built a harness that measures map-matching quality with pass/fail rules fixed before each run.

  • My TomTom

    Platform engineer · 2024–2025

    The self-service console for TomTom API customers. I built and launched it in January 2025: the first usage-analytics page, auth and session hardening, deploys gated by end-to-end tests, and its on-call setup.

Events

  • WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026

    Booth staff for TomTom · Berlin, Jul 2026

    One of the highlights of my year. I demoed the TomTom Maps SDK and agents, and loved talking directly with developers using our SDK. I designed our vibe-coding challenge, where attendees built a map app with AI in ten minutes, and watching them build, and have fun doing it, was the best part. I built a live map trivia game, which my colleague hosted on stage with an audience of ~600 devs.