Summary
Ayesha Omarali is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building full‑stack systems and data-driven tools, currently shaping capacity management platforms for thousands of VFX artists at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic. She blends TypeScript/Vue frontends with Python/Django backends and a strong data engineering sensibility from prior roles at Disney, Sentry, and biotech and genomics teams. Her work spans production pipeline tooling, realtime product features, and experimentation in ML/NLP—she once improved a conversational question-recognition algorithm from 20% to over 66% without standard libraries. Passionate about technology that protects human rights and advances medicine, she has also contributed election monitoring and open-source intelligence research. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she pairs technical breadth with clear communication and an offbeat interest in hosting a food & travel TV show.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science & Cognitive Science, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
Constitutional Law, Media & Politics, Constitutional Law, Media & Politics at Georgetown University
Spanish, English