# Ali Emara

> staff software engineer (ios) at meta ai glasses 🕶️ | ex: photoshop @ adobe

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aliemara

An experienced software engineer & an accomplished student. Specialized in iOS development (Swift, ObjC & C++). Deeply interested in building software products with highly performant & scalable engineering architecture to deliver beautiful user experiences.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Current: Tech lead on Meta AI app (the companion app for Meta AI Glasses 😎)
www.meta.com/ai-glasses/
Currently, focusing on Retail Technologies (the Retail Demo app) for Meta AI Glasses.

- Past: Tech lead on Instagram app

### Senior Software Engineer (iOS), Photoshop @ Adobe
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Working on the first version on Photoshop for the iPad. To be released in 2019 [adobe.com/creativecloud/photoshop-ecosystem.html]
- Worked previously on Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop Fix iOS apps.
- Specialized in: Objectieve-C, C++, and Swift.

### Research & Teaching Assistant @ UC Davis
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Sacramento, California Area
Coursework and research interests:
- Machine Learning.
- Mobile apps usage behaviors and patterns.
- Social Networks.

Teaching Assistant for ECS193B - Senior Design Project B.
    - Teaching 50+ students divided in 12 teams guiding them in the software senior design projects, varying from Google Glass, Oculus Rift, web, to mobile software apps.
    -  Grading assignments and reports.

### Mobile Engineering Intern (iOS) @ Trulia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
•	Designed and developed an iOS app for real estate consumers to view open houses on a map and rate them, storing user feedback as text, voice, images, and star ratings.
•	Pitched the idea and led a team that won Trulia’s Innovation Week Grand Prize for an iOS app for the single bedroom rentals market, with roommate-matching algorithm based on Facebook social graph and customized preferences.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Emulex
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Roseville, California
- Implemented and tested iSNS functions for iSCSI-based network drivers.
- Developed on both Kernel and user-space driver levels.
- Used Wireshark to analyze protocol errors.

### Software Developer @ UC Davis Medical Center
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Designed a C# GUI for testing the speed of eye tracking for research purposes in the optometry clinic.

### Android Developer (Java) @ Freelance
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Polling system app that enables many users to create different domains with specific privacy limits to share questions and vote for different decisions.
  - Quotes App where user chooses his/her favorite quotes from a library of quotes divided into different categories.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Davis

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
The American University in Cairo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aliemara

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Last updated: 2026-04-12