Ali Karbassi
Director Of Software Engineering at Braven
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarAli Karbassi is a Director of Software Engineering with two decades of experience building products, teams, and nonprofits across startups, enterprise clients, and education. He blends hands-on full-stack craft—shipping UI refinements, macOS/iOS features, and performance fixes in notable open-source projects—with strategic leadership that scales teams, streamlines delivery, and accelerates go-to-market outcomes. A11Y advocate and founder of We All Code, Ali has grown the nonprofit to serve thousands of students while also driving DEI initiatives and engineering mentorship programs in industry. He routinely pairs design-thinking with practical engineering (React, SvelteKit, Kotlin, microservices, AWS) to deliver customer-focused products on aggressive timelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who increases feature throughput and team morale through clear workflows, paired programming, and measurable process improvements.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Persian
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Github Skills (30)
timers10
debug10
javascript10
packaging10
timer10
homebrew-cask10
ui-design10
homebrew10
font-face10
android-app10
package10
swift10
macos10
iphone-app10
application10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
michaelvillar/timer-app
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
A simple Timer app for Mac
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the development of a macOS timer application. Their work involved implementing new features like keypad enter functionality for starting the timer, fixing bugs by converting deprecated code and adding dark mode support. They also refactored the codebase by replacing NSImageView with NSView and updated colors and fonts to refine the UI, specifically focusing on the visual aspects and user interaction within the application.
statusbarwidgetmacosxtogglmac
Prinzhorn/skrollr
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
Stand-alone parallax scrolling library for mobile (Android + iOS) and desktop. No jQuery. Just plain JavaScript (and some love).
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily focused on optimizing the codebase and addressing specific issues within the `skrollr` library, a parallax scrolling library. Their contributions include refactoring and optimizing existing code, such as moving length checks outside loops for performance improvements. They also fixed a bug related to preventing default actions on mobile devices and reverted an unintended change, showcasing debugging and code maintenance skills. Furthermore, they enhanced the library by fixing a typo, renaming a variable for better readability.
parallaxno-jqueryanimationplain-javascriptstand-alone
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