Hi, I'm Ali! I graduated from Rutgers University in 2021 with a major in Computer Science and minors in Creative Writing and Philosophy, and I'm a Software Engineer at Microsoft, a Program Manager at Impact Labs, an advocate for ethics-driven technology, and an enthusiast of tech intersecting with the arts.
In fall 2021, I started working full-time at Microsoft on developer tools.
In summer 2021, I was a hackNY fellow hosted at Numina! At hackNY I attended speaker events and worked on a digital storytelling platform for the GANGS Coalition, a non-profit calliing for police accountabiility. At Numina, I worked on automating sensor rebooting, and tracking and reporting uptime for their traffic sensors
In spring 2021, I participated in Project School, a remote project accelerator where I worked on a small team to build a proof-of-concept for a p2p filesystem.
In summer 2020, I interned at Microsoft, on the DevProd team working on a VSCode Extension to view Azure DevOps (version control) tickets in your editor to reduce context switches.
In 2020, I participated in the Impact Fellowship, a two-week program in NYC where I met with other undergraduate technologists interested in using tech to address inequity and solve emergent problems. Now, I'm a Program Manager at Impact Labs!
At the end of 2019, I became President of the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists, the largest CS club at Rutgers.
In 2019, I became a Coach for Major League Hacking. Now I travel the country to empower student hackers and organizers at their events!
In summers of 2018 and 2019, I interned for Pearson's Learning Services Technology department, working on their Realize team to build an internal developer tool with Java and Python, doing DevOps with AWS Systems Manager and Python, and even building a proof of concept for a new product with React Native and Express.js.
In 2018, I became Rutgers's Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Science's (USACS) Events Coordinator, organizing events to demonstrate the organization's pillars of community, mentorship, diversity and inclusitivity, and hacker culture.
In 2017, I won 3rd Place Overall at PennApps XV! My team and I built a desktop accessibility tool for people with Parkinson's disease called TactEYEle with IBM Watson's Speech-To-Text API and OpenCV.
In 2016, I organized a data science hackathon for high school students in NYC in collaboration with NASA's Office of Innovation called Space Apps Next Generation: NYC.
