Ali Hitawala
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAli Hitawala is a software engineering manager at Meta with 11 years of experience building low-latency, service-oriented systems and consumer-facing products. He rose through software engineering roles at Facebook after strong internships, bringing hands-on expertise in Java, Android, and front-end frameworks from earlier stints at Goldman Sachs and Cisco where he delivered measurable performance and automation gains. A University of Wisconsin–Madison MS graduate with a top-ranked B.Tech, he combines rigorous academic training with practical performance engineering that once cut service redundancy and improved throughput by ~30%. Based in Mountain View, he pairs team leadership with deep technical ownership—often serving as the go-to expert for platform, tooling, and testing improvements. Notably, his background spans both research-oriented NLP work and production-scale ad/product engineering, giving him a rare blend of applied research sensitivity and product delivery focus.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.99/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.99/10 at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Sciences, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Sciences, 4.0/4.0 at University of Wisconsin-MadisonCentral Public School, UdaipurMaharana Mewar Public School, Udaipur
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
string-tokenizer8
matching6
browser6
sqlite6
android6
data-model6
database6
mobile-website6
string-matching4
python4
design-patterns3
java3
css1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alihitawala/DesignPatterns
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
javadesign-patternspatterns
alihitawala/CodeBase_Competitive_programming
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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