Nabeelah Ali
New Zealand
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Top SchoolNabeelah Ali is an experienced software engineer based in New Zealand with 11 years designing delightful, human-centered interfaces and cross-platform desktop apps. She has shipped product and UX-focused work at companies ranging from Basecamp—where she led HEY’s macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop apps—to large teams at Microsoft and fast-growth startups like Typeform. Comfortable across the full stack, she specializes in frontend architectures using ES6, TypeScript, React and Redux, and combines that with pragmatic product thinking and customer support. As an early engineering manager at Typeform she helped scale teams and hiring practices while keeping engineering craft and equity front of mind. Her background in mechatronics, cognitive science and computer science gives her a rare blend of systems thinking and user-focused design. Colleagues know her as a maker of “nice things” who prioritizes building software that works with people, not against them.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics [Honours]), Bachelor of Arts (Cognitive Science, French), Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics [Honours]), Bachelor of Arts (Cognitive Science, French) at The University of QueenslandMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyExchange student, Exchange student at McGill University
English, French, Icelandic
Github Skills (71)
html-editor10
wysiwyg10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
typescript10
basecamp10
text-editing10
contenteditable10
rte10
ace-editor10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
modernizr9
react9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nali/tinytomatotimer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:26 commits in 11 months
adrianskogvold/ArcticYear
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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