Ali holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Systems from MIT and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. He has spent time at Harvard, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the MIT Media Lab, where his research involved creating predictive models of source-code quality as well as investigating architecture adaptability in software. He currently resides in San Francisco where he visualizes Firefox data for Mozilla. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Wired, Fast Company, io9, The Dish, BuzzFeed and Boing Boing. Ali spent his childhood in the UK, where he attended primary school in Manchester.
On a personal note, I like to go on long solitary walks when I can. Living in San Francisco provides ample opportunity to do that. I have a three-year-old daughter and a loving wife. I’m currently working on a short story about computing algorithms. Thank you for your interest in my work.
