Ali Reda
Software Engineer
I'm a full-stack engineer who can take projects from 0 → 1 alone or in small teams.
Experience
App developer
RunTheDish
June 2025 - September 2025
London
Social Media Platform for Food
Designed and developed full-stack social media application using React Native/Expo and TypeScript, implementing video streaming, user authentication, social features, and real-time feeds.
Key Contributions:
- Designed and developed full-stack social media application using React Native/Expo and TypeScript, implementing video streaming, user authentication, social features (follow/like/save), content management, and real-time feeds.
- Built scalable backend architecture using Convex with Test-Driven Development approach using Vitest, achieving 85% test coverage and implementing Stripe payment integration with sandbox testing environment.
- Integrated cloud infrastructure including Cloudflare R2 for media storage and Cloudflare Stream for video delivery, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Created and deployed conversion-focused landing page that secured 247 pre-launch signups, demonstrating strong product-market fit validation.
- Delivered complete UI/UX design and implementation, managing full development lifecycle independently from requirements gathering through pre-launch deployment.
Full Stack Engineer
Startup Incubator
2025
London
AI Recruitment Platform
projectviz.com/Developed an AI recruitment platform for the Chief Strategy Officer of a major Gulf-region foundation, integrating GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Mistral with real-time voice capabilities.
Key Contributions:
- Made a strategic architectural decision to use Convex instead of Supabase, reducing development time by 45% while enabling more flexible data operations.
- Built a realtime AI interviewer system using LiveKit and WebRTC for autonomous interviews with transcription, sentiment analysis, and automated scoring.
- Architected an agentic AI chat system using embedded user prompts and semantic retrieval over a Convex vector DB.
- Engineered a document pipeline with Mistral OCR + LLMs to parse and structure resume data for context-aware interview generation.
- Prototyped a candidate assessment engine capable of estimating fit scores and identifying skill gaps.
Projectviz
projectviz.com/Successfully deployed Projectviz to 20+ active users across multiple teams, maintaining consistent performance while handling concurrent task creation and updates.
Key Contributions:
- Contributed to the development of an agentic workflow using Gemini 2.0 Flash to interpret WhatsApp messages, converting them into structured tasks.
- Enabled seamless Google Calendar event syncing and automated assignee notifications through personalized message flows.
- Collaborated on the development of a Django backend with RESTful APIs, Redis caching, and optimized database queries.
- Implemented complex state management with React Query, delivering sub-100ms optimistic updates to ensure immediate visual feedback.
Personal Projects
Network Visualization Platforms
Built 2 network visualization platforms using yFiles-for-HTML and D3.js, leveraging 5+ visual and analytical graph algorithms to explore 1,000+ stakeholder connections.
Key Features:
- Developed interactive features enabling cross-sector relationship visualization, resulting in a 100% improvement in network insight accessibility.
- Enhanced graph interactivity and depth by integrating 6+ visual effects, a dynamic neighborhood view, and detailed panels to inspect properties.
- Designed visualization tools to significantly improve users' ability to explore and interpret complex stakeholder networks.
Meeting Intelligence Platform
Built and deployed a sophisticated meeting intelligence platform for an organization supporting startups with $300 million PMV.
Key Features:
- Leveraged Google Drive and Calendar APIs to seamlessly match recordings to calendar events and create a unified repository for meeting assets.
- Implemented a serverless pipeline using AssemblyAI for transcription and Google Gemini for summarization.
- Successfully processed 42+ hours of meetings to generate structured insights, key points, and actionable items for stakeholders.
Projects
AI Recruitment Platform
2024Developed an AI recruitment platform integrating GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Mistral with real-time voice capabilities to automate candidate screening, job matching, and interviews. Built a realtime AI interviewer system using LiveKit and WebRTC.
Agentic AI Sales Platform
2025Advanced AI agents platform that autonomously researches prospect companies and generates personalized, human-like outreach emails. Features intelligent contact discovery, pain point mining, and news analysis to create highly targeted communication strategies.
Zulfigraph
2024Knowledge graph visualization platform built with GraphRAG and langchain for a community of 70 people. Enables users to explore connections between data points, ask questions about the graph, and discover insights through AI-powered workflows.
D3.js Network Visualizer
2024Built an advanced network visualization platform with D3.js, featuring force-directed layouts, relationship filtering, and interactive node exploration. Supports 1000+ nodes with custom physics simulation and clustering algorithms.
yFiles Network Analysis Platform
2024Developed network analysis platform with advanced graph algorithms. Enhanced graph interactivity with 6+ visual effects, a dynamic neighborhood view, and detailed panels to inspect properties and relationships.
Meeting Intelligence Platform
2024Built and deployed a sophisticated meeting intelligence platform for an organization supporting startups with $300 million PMV, leveraging Google Drive and Calendar APIs to seamlessly match recordings to calendar events.
Skills
Languages
Frameworks and Libraries
SaaS & Databases
AI & ML
DevOps
APIs & Integrations
Education
BEng Software Engineering - First Class Honours
University of Westminster