Reza Ali
Human Interface Designer at Apple
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReza Ali is a Human Interface Designer and engineer with 14 years of experience blending real-time graphics, product design, and interactive systems, currently shaping experiences at Apple in Culver City. He moves fluidly between design and code, having held roles from Keynote Animation Engineer to Design Engineer and Creative Technologist, and founded Hi-Rez to ship product-focused prototypes and tooling. His work on openFrameworks timeline/audio tooling shows a hands-on commitment to low-level multimedia systems that improve creative workflows. Reza’s background in electrical and mechanical engineering (RPI) and an MSc in Multimedia Engineering gives him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency for hardware-aware software and interface craft. He’s known for turning experimental graphics research into polished, user-facing interactions across consumer and creative platforms. Colleagues describe him as a graphics enthusiast who marries aesthetic rigor with pragmatic engineering to solve tricky real-time problems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Multimedia Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Multimedia Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
audio-processing10
c-language10
openframeworks10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
YCAMInterlab/ofxTimeline
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
lightweight timeline tools for openFrameworks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Reza contributed to the `ofxtimeline` repository by implementing features and fixing bugs related to audio and timeline functionality. They added methods for retrieving audio samples and page information, enabling more precise control over audio playback and timeline organization. The user's work primarily involved modifying the core timeline and audio track classes within the openFrameworks environment. These changes included improvements to the `ofxTLAudioTrack` class and related functionality, improving the usability and functionality of the timeline tools.
openframeworks
Hi-Rez/Satin
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
A 3D Graphics Framework built on Apple's Metal
Contributions:500 commits, 20 PRs, 547 pushes in 3 years 6 months
3d-graphicsswift3dgraphicsmetal
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