Ayesha Ali
Software Engineer at Instabase
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyesha Ali is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building web and research systems, currently on the engineering team at Instabase after a progression from intern to full-time hire. She holds a Bachelor's and an MEng in Computer Science from MIT and blends strong backend skills in Python and Java with front-end experience (React, HTML/CSS, ThreeJS) from projects at the MIT Media Lab and Duolingo. Her work spans industry and academia—contributing to the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and City Science/CITYSCope projects—bringing a data visualization and systems-thinking lens to product problems. A seasoned educator and curriculum developer, she has created coding coursework for Codecademy and taught Python and SQL to students, which informs her clear, user-focused engineering approach. Based in New York, she’s motivated by using computing to improve real-world systems and has a track record of turning research prototypes into interactive, production-facing tools.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTrinity School NYC
Github Skills (4)
publish6
science2
nextjs2
react2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ayeshaali/CS_cityscopeJS
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
CityScope Platform for the Web | @mitmedialab City Science
Contributions:91 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
reactnextjsscience
ayeshaali/Endangered-Species
Aug 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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