ALI AL-HASHEMI

SOFTWARE ENGINEER · DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI

Full-stack engineer.
Systems thinker.

Hi, I’m Ali. I build production applications with C#/.NET, TypeScript, and SQL—and explore how software works, right down to the hardware.

Explore my work View résumé

Currently at United Wholesale Mortgage
Studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech

IN PRODUCTIONSQL performance

Less waiting.
More useful software.

Loan-analytics dashboard load times, improved through indexing and query changes.

The engineering behind it
A FEW THINGS I CARE ABOUT
Clarity·Correctness·Follow-through
ACROSS THE STACKC# / .NETReact & TypeScriptSQL & AzureSystems & testing

01 / SELECTED WORK

The interesting part
is under the hood.

Three projects. Different constraints.
A closer look at the decisions behind them.

01Real-time applications
DESIGN → IMPLEMENTATION → VALIDATION↗

Real-time applications

Settle It

A real-time party game with live voting, shared room state, and a daily community challenge.

  • Durable room state
  • Idempotent commands
  • Failure recovery
TypeScriptSvelteKitCloudflareSQLite
Read the case study Code

Cloudflare rebuild

02Full-stack development
DESIGN → IMPLEMENTATION → VALIDATION↗

Full-stack development

Pokémon Team Builder

An Angular and ASP.NET Core application for building private Pokémon teams and analyzing their type coverage.

  • Owner-scoped data
  • Domain validation
  • Type-coverage analysis
C# / .NETAngularSQL ServerEF Core
Read the case study Code

Development build

03Systems & correctness
DESIGN → IMPLEMENTATION → VALIDATION↗

Systems & correctness

Game Boy Emulator

A C#/.NET Game Boy emulator with CPU, memory, graphics, and audio subsystems—and reference tests to check their behavior.

  • Reference testing
  • Hardware behavior
  • Core / frontend separation
C#.NET 8MonoGamexUnit
Read the case study Code

Implemented · accuracy work ongoing

A LITTLE FURTHER AFIELD

Curiosity, shipped.

Multiplayer worlds and a very small cat.
More places to solve interesting problems.

Relic Diver pause menu showing Roll Caskett and her equipped buster statisticsIN-GAME CAPTURE

Multiplayer & persistence

Relic Diver

A Godot 3D roguelike fan prototype with online co-op, reconnect and host migration, plus a Node.js/PostgreSQL account-progression backend.

A look at recovering shared sessions and preventing duplicate progress writes.

GodotNode.jsPostgreSQL
Explore source Progression transactions
Playable fan prototype

Browser/Windows and published Android builds currently use different co-op protocols. Capcom character assets are credited separately from the engineering.

Actual Kishmish Nano software framebuffer showing the pixel-art cat and care menuSOFTWARE FRAMEBUFFER

C & constrained hardware

Kishmish Nano

A C/SDL virtual pet for the 240×240 Anbernic RG Nano, with persistent care state, bounded offline progression, and a packaged ARM runtime.

A small application with real constraints: clocks, saves, firmware, and packaging.

CSDLARM Linux
Explore source Builds & release notes
Released MVP + newer prerelease

Image: software framebuffer capture. The newer personality prerelease still needs on-device controls and audio verification.

Earlier work 03 projects

MunchKeep

Fixed-tick dungeon simulation, A* pathfinding, capped offline earnings, and headless auto-play tests.

C# · MonoGame · xUnit

PMD-Rogue

A turn-based prototype with seeded dungeon generation, type-based combat, stacking items, and a headless smoke harness.

C# · MonoGame

ShmupGame

Earlier work with composable movement and shooting behaviors, game states, collisions, and JSON-driven waves. Setup needs portability cleanup.

C# · MonoGame

02 / PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

Software with
real responsibilities.

From data-heavy applications to client delivery,
working where the details matter.

Oct 2024 — PresentCURRENT

United Wholesale Mortgage

Software Developer

Building production software across .NET, React, SQL Server, and Salesforce.

  • Reduced loan-analytics dashboard loads from 30–45 seconds to under 5 seconds through a composite index, narrower loan ranges, and query filters that avoided table scans.
  • Contribute to a .NET document fraud-detection microservice that evaluates AI-extracted financial data against business rules.
  • Selected as interim team lead for 2–3 months, balancing team coordination with individual sprint commitments.
C# / .NETReactSQL ServerSalesforce
Mar 2025 — Present

Red Ribbon Systems

Software Engineer & Co-Founder

Connecting client requirements to architecture and working software.

  • Helped secure a healthcare software engagement and worked on requirements, architecture, and delivery planning.
  • Developed a SvelteKit UI and .NET backend with Azure Cosmos DB; hosted client-review builds and performed integration and end-to-end testing.
SvelteKit.NETAzure Cosmos DB
Mar — Oct 2024

All Pro Logistics / MeetPlayWin

Software Development & Service Operations

Software and operations in a working fleet environment.

  • Supported adoption of a service-scheduling PWA for approximately 200 drivers and implemented application features.
PWAService operations
Oct 2022 — Feb 2024

JATO Dynamics

Associate Full-Stack .NET Developer

Full-stack development supporting the review of complex vehicle data.

  • Worked within the team building a .NET 6, React, and Azure Cosmos DB exception-management application for vehicle records an automated ETL pipeline could not classify.
.NETReactAzure Cosmos DB

ONE EXAMPLE / QUERY PERFORMANCE

30–45 seconds.
Then, under five.

Loan-analytics dashboard at United Wholesale Mortgage

01

The problemLarge accounts faced slow dashboard loads, making a routine view expensive to use.

02

The changeA composite index, narrower loan ranges, and query filters that avoided table scans.

03

The resultLoad times moved from 30–45 seconds to under 5 seconds. A focused data-access change made the existing application more useful.

Outcome reported in my résumé. This public summary omits internal implementation details.

03 / A BIT ABOUT ME

I like knowing
how things work.

I’m Ali, a software engineer based in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. My professional work spans application development, data, and cloud services. My side projects take that curiosity into emulation, real-time systems, and small pieces of hardware.

I’m pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science, focused on Computing Systems, at Georgia Tech. Before software, I studied Biochemistry & Chemical Biology—a different route into the same habit of asking how a system fits together.

Georgia Institute of TechnologyM.S. Computer Science · Computing SystemsExpected 2028
Also along the way

B.S. Biochemistry & Chemical Biology, Wayne State University
C# / .NET bootcamp, Grand Circus

TOOLS, WITH CONTEXT

Application development

Production work and full-stack projects

C# / .NETASP.NET CoreReactTypeScriptAngularSvelteKit

Data & infrastructure

Persistence, query performance, and delivery

SQL ServerEntity FrameworkAzureCosmos DBSQLiteDocker

Engineering practice

Making behavior testable and repeatable

xUnitGitHub ActionsREST APIsSystem designCode reviewDebugging

Beyond the web

Systems projects and platform-specific work

CMonoGameGodotHardware emulationSalesforce Apex / LWC

LET’S CONNECT

Have something
worth building?

I’m happy to talk software, engineering challenges,
and opportunities to do useful work.

alialh01@gmail.com Dearborn Heights, Michigan