Ali Mousa is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with 11 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems for both consumer platforms and privacy-focused blockchain projects. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping Next.js and React shared packages at Disney Streaming that cut duplicated work across 10+ teams—with deep cryptography and Rust experience contributing to prominent open-source zk and wallet projects like snarkOS, snarkVM, and wagyu. Comfortable leading cross-org initiatives, he drove Tailwind adoption for 100+ developers, improved observability and cut page latency by 75%, and mentors junior engineers to boost delivery velocity. Notably, his open-source work spans WASM-based wallet prototypes and low-level transaction and peer-management plumbing, showing a rare blend of frontend polish and systems-level rigor.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
A Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:140 commits, 9 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to implementing the core functionality of a Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets. Their work focused on defining and implementing the `PrivateKey` struct, including methods for generating, converting, and validating private keys. They also added an `Address` struct and a `BitcoinWallet` struct and made modifications to the underlying `bech32` and other utility functions to support more wallet address types like Bech32 and P2SH-P2WPKH.
Javascript & Typescript SDK for Zero-Knowledge Application Development
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ali focused on developing front-end components for the Aleo SDK, specifically creating account generation and record decryption functionalities. Their work involved integrating the `aleo-wasm` library for zero-knowledge application development, demonstrating a strong understanding of WASM and Typescript. The user also refactored and created components related to account creation and record decryption within a React application, leveraging Ant Design for UI elements.
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Ali Mousa - Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming