# Ali Mousa

> Software Engineer

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alimousa

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2024 – Present | San Diego, California, United States
- Shared Package Development: Designed and launched reusable packages, including a CMS-backed footer component built with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind. Reduced duplicated efforts across 10+ teams, streamlined legal compliance updates, and saved hundreds of person-hours per year. Delivered the first shared package adopted across client engineering organizations, fostering cross-org collaboration. Onboarded junior engineers to increase team velocity and deliver new features to customer teams.

- SEO Infrastructure Optimization: Modernized the legacy Node.js + TypeScript codebase powering the Disney+ sitemap, introducing critical enhancements for content availability and maintainability. Closed documentation gaps and mentored a new engineer, increasing team capacity to deliver impactful SEO-driven results.

- Leading Tailwind CSS Framework Adoption: Spearheaded the transition to a unified styling framework for an engineering organization of 100+ developers. Evaluated CSS framework options, authored widely-praised RFCs, and successfully drove Tailwind CSS adoption. Created an integration guide and supported teams in implementation, enhancing React component development efficiency and boosting developer productivity.

- Driving Observability and Performance Enhancements: Improved observability for Disney+ and Hulu non-subscriber pages by integrating Datadog tagging and robust logging strategies. Enhanced the Next.js platform powering these pages by implementing Redis caching for upstream calls, achieving a 75% reduction in latency, delivering a significantly improved user experience.

- Recognition for Technical Excellence: Received the Consistently Awesome Teammate (CAT) Award for Technical Achievement in 2024 for contributions in building a Next.js Platform to power Non Subscriber pages across Disney+ and Hulu. Key achievements included architecting a framework for rendering CMS-driven pages, creating shared packages, and evangelizing observability best practices.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Aleo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Diego Metropolitan Area
• Built, deployed, and maintained a block explorer web app using NextJS, React, and Typescript
• Developed a prototype of a WASM based cryptocurrency wallet that supports privacy preserving remote generation of zero knowledge proofs

### Software Engineer II @ OpenTable
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Diego, California, United States
• Developed, tested, and deployed full stack features in React and TypeScript in close partnership with product managers and designers
• Ported frontend components and data fetching logic from Angular into React, reducing load times and modernizing our technology stack
• Devised and implemented end to end frontend tests using Cypress, reducing accidental deployment of bugs into production
• Proposed and implemented an analytics tracking initiative using Mixpanel, providing non-technical stakeholders access to data around user journey
• Triaged and resolved production issues during on call rotation, maintaining a resolution time of under 24 hours

### Software Engineer Intern @ OpenTable
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Architected an API for a feature-toggling system that allows engineers to control exposure of features to users. Improved upon the previous system by moving from binary toggles to criterion-based toggles, allowing for reuse of criterion across different toggles and granular feature rollout.
• Reduced validation time for API Gateway configuration changes from 1 hour of manual validation to under 30 seconds and prevented production
bugs by creating a Docker image that ran in TeamCity when a new configuration was pushed to GitHub, automating validation of configuration.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting improvements to streamline diagnosis of degraded performance and microservice crashes.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Dekrypt Capital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
• Architected and Built load-balanced RPC infrastructure for blockchain nodes hosted on EC2, providing API access to several popular blockchains.
• Developed a cryptocurrency wallet in Javascript that allowed users to programmatically create, sign, and send transactions for different cryptocurrencies
using a common interface.
• Designed and implemented an efficient portfolio management backend in Javascript for cryptocurrencies and equities to provide real-time automatic
updates on portfolio status

### Software Intern @ BlockApps
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Created the STRATO Management Dashboard using React JS enabling access to the platform via an intuitive web interface.
• Contributed to end to end platform tests with Mocha for STRATO, a highly scalable private blockchain platform.
• Constructed a test environment for use with JP Morgan’s Quorum, a permissioned blockchain platform with Bash, Node.js, and Mocha.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29