Summary
Ali Shalabi is a full-stack software engineer and Make School student with a decade of hands-on experience building web applications and teaching backend web development. Based in San Francisco, he ships practical projects—like Trivia Trainer and Songs I Know—that combine Node/Express, Django, and modern front-end tooling to deliver polished single-page and CRUD experiences. As a teaching assistant he regularly debugs student projects, leads labs, and provides code review, blending pedagogy with production practice. His background in biopsychology and early international schooling gives him a distinctive user-centered perspective, and outside of code he fosters kittens and plays 60s music on guitar—small signals of curiosity and steady craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, Emphasis in French, International Baccalaureate, Emphasis in French at International High School
Student Exchange, 5th Grade, 8th Grade, 10th Grade, Student Exchange, 5th Grade, 8th Grade, 10th Grade at International Studies
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Applied Computer Science at Make School
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biopsychology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biopsychology at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, French, Italian