Ali Esmaili

PROFESSIONAL

CA TECHNOLOGIES 2017–Present | Santa Clara, CA

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

  • Co-architected web app with mobile-first and scalable design using Angular, Ngrx, Angular Material, Firebase Realtime database, and Microsoft Azure platform for chatbot.
  • Streamlined user-connection surfability using Vis.js and D3.js graph visualization, with Neo4j graph database for insightful queries, increasing profile exploration by 30%.
  • Configured local and production environments, scripted setup processes, and wrote clear documentation for team repos, helping team members get up and running in minutes.

SUITANDCAPE 2014–2017 | Santa Clara, CA

FULL-STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER

  • Engineered Messenger chatbot beta utilizing Flask, improving accuracy of identifying repair requests to ~80% by designing NLP and NLU system with Python, wit.ai, and NLTK.
  • Optimized page load times by 90% through refactoring JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 codebase to ensure maintainability and DRY principles while also downsizing 150+ conference images.
  • Architected MySQL DB, separating accounts based on user privileges for 1000+ conference attendees.
  • Designed UI, UX-workflow, and wireframing of new online platform, leading multiple stakeholder meetings.

EBAY INC. (STUBHUB) 2009–2014 | San Francisco, CA

SENIOR CONTENT ANALYST

  • Enhanced team workflow by 100% by developing SQL queries and iMacros automation scripts to manage and debug content to supplement in-house CMS and provide data-scraping and event creation functionality.

EDUCATION

UC SANTA BARBARA

  • Normalized 800+ event and venue content pages across StubHub’s iOS platform and Spotify integration.
  • Managed QA process on over 50,000 listings monthly within Zvents.com catalog utilizing internal CMS and Jira.

SKILLS

B.S. – Biology (career change)
DE ANZA COLLEGE
A.S. – Science, Math, & Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

  • CISCO CCNA Routing & Switching
  • CCENT
  • NEO4J Neo4j Certified Professional

TECHNOLOGIES

  • JavaScript (ES2017)
  • Angular
  • Node.js
  • Gulp.js
  • Ngrx
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Sass (SCSS)
  • Angular Material
  • Foundation
  • Bootstrap
  • AJAX
  • Shell Script (Bash, Zsh)
  • Git
  • Neo4j
  • GraphQL
  • Firebase Tools
  • Firebase Realtime Database
  • Documentation (Markdown, LaTeX)
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • Python
  • jQuery
  • SQL
  • Ionic
  • Express
  • D3.js
  • Vis.js
  • Babel
  • RSpec