Ali Abrar
Partner at Obsidian Systems LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Abrar is a Partner and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and shipping production-grade web apps from New York. He combines hands-on engineering—deep contributions to the Reflex FRP ecosystem, including core Spider internals and Reflex-DOM UI enhancements—with product and company leadership as co-founder of Tradecraft and longtime partner at Obsidian Systems. His work spans low-level FRP primitives, performance fixes and feature additions (throttle, dynamic behaviors, XHR), plus platform packaging and mobile build support in reflex-platform, reflecting both systems-level rigor and pragmatic product delivery. Trained across law, humanities, and IT, he brings an unusually broad perspective that blends technical depth with policy and product sensibilities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
German Summer Program, German Language and Literature, German Summer Program, German Language and Literature at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor of Arts - BA, German, Bachelor of Arts - BA, German at Oregon State UniversityCertificate, Middle Eastern Languages, Certificate, Middle Eastern Languages at NYU School of Professional StudiesDoctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at Harvard Law SchoolUMass LowellBachelor of Arts - BA, History and Political Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, History and Political Science at York University
Github Skills (19)
ios10
nix10
reflex10
ui-design10
uid10
functional-reactive-programming10
monads10
front-end-development10
android10
frp10
haskell10
ghcjs10
data-structure9
data-structures9
template-haskell8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reflex-frp/reflex
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Interactive programs without callbacks or side-effects. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) uses composable events and time-varying values to describe interactive systems as pure functions. Just like other pure functional code, functional reactive code is easier to get right on the first try, maintain, and reuse.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 5 reviews, 169 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the codebase by implementing and modifying internal components within the Reflex FRP framework. Their work involved extensive modifications to low-level functions and data structures related to the core functionalities of FRP, including areas like Spider internals, dynamic behaviors, and event handling. Furthermore, the user added features such as 'throttle' and 'distributeListOverDynWith' and addressed some GHC panic scenarios. The contributions demonstrate deep involvement with the functional reactive programming paradigm and the underlying mechanisms of the Reflex library.
eventsreflex-frpdescribecallbacksfunctional-reactive-programming
reflex-frp/reflex-dom
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Web applications without callbacks or side-effects. Reflex-DOM brings the power of functional reactive programming (FRP) to the web. Build HTML and other Document Object Model (DOM) data with a pure functional interface.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 262 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Reflex-DOM library. Their contributions included adding support for new UI elements such as text areas and dropdowns, as well as improving existing components like checkboxes. They also introduced features like dynamic attributes for text areas and value setting for dropdowns. Additionally, the user added features like scroll-based events for existing UI components and the incorporation of XHR functionality.
callbacksfrpreactivepure-functionalhaskell
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