# Ali Unwala

> Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Pflugerville, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aliunwala

Full Stack Developer with 7 years of expertise in designing and developing user-friendly, accessible, responsive web applications. Skilled in modern frameworks like React with an emphasis on performance optimization and seamless user experiences. With work published in various newspapers, showcasing a keen eye for design and innovation.

Articles featuring my work are in:
Forbes, Washington Post, Fortune, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Time, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Information Week, Business Insider, Newsweek, The Verge, Ars Technica, bon appetit, InfoQ, betanews, linux.com, ZDNET, VentureBeat, CSUN, and additional publications
(Please see https://aliunwala.com/Resume_Ali_Unwala.pdf for hyperlinks of those press releases)

## Work Experience
### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Contributed to core development of open source tools that provide millions of users a way to debug the accessibility of their website.

- Direct impacts of my work led to 23% improvement in accessibility compliance year over year. Leading to 100’s of millions in captured revenue by IBM products yearly. 

- ibm.com/able:  Implemented over 90% of the sites frontend using React deployed with Docker.

- IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker: Planned and created a dynamically drawing tool to visualize highlighted bugs on a webpage.

Technology: React, Javascript, CSS, HTML, JSX, VSCode, Typescript, Node.js, Docker, Gatsby, and CouchDB, axios

See my portfolio for more details: https://aliunwala.com/#IBMDesign

### Research Software Architect - Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Designed and developed an web event driven architecture to check the accessibility on web pages.

See my portfolio for more details: https://aliunwala.com/#IBMResearch


Technology: Javascript, CSS, HTML, VSCode, and Node.js

### IBM Watson: Cognitive Robotics Technical Lead @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas
- Led a team of 20 people all working toward building cognitive AI embodiments.

- Consulted and brainstormed with C-suites and VPs at over 10 Fortune 500 companies to explore strategic ways to add Watson AI and robotics into their products.

- Robotic Concierge: Conceptualized, implemented, and deployed a robotic concierge to help Hilton customers navigate the hotel and the surrounding area using natural language.

- Chef Watson Robot: Connected IBM Watson’s Cooking AI to create an active kitchen assistant that explores ingredients with a cook creating dynamically generated recipes for them to cook.

See my portfolio for more details: https://aliunwala.com/#IBMWatson

Technology: REST, Python, Matlab, Vim, Unix/Linux, CouchDB, ROS, PCL, OpenCV, Watson AI APIs, NAO Robot, Pepper Robot

### Teaching Assistant: CS 378 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- I taught CS 378 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, introducing students to a real robotics system, the Segbot platform. The Segbot is a homegrown autonomous robot built on a segway base.

See my portfolio for more details: https://aliunwala.com/#segbot

### Graduate Technical Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Austin, Texas
- Working in pre-silicon validation, I verified Intel’s mobile processors (Atom, Celeron and Pentium) before they were sent for fabrication.

See my portfolio for more details: https://aliunwala.com/#IntelIntern


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical an Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/aliunwala
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aliunwala/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22