About
Bio
Ali Zaidi is the CTO and a co-founder of BandLadder. He leads the technology behind BandLadder's AI scoring for speaking and writing, its practice platform and apps.
He builds BandLadder's open data pages, such as the university requirements table and the IELTS and PTE practice statistics, and writes their methodology.
Data and methodology
Work on BandLadder
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