Ali Rahman

Ali Rahman has a diverse work experience spanning from 2015 to 2021. In 2015, they were a Technical Intern at IDScan.net, where they wrote documentation for iOS ID Info Parsing SDK and iOS Camera Scanning SDK, created a sample iOS app using ID Parsing and Camera Scanning SDKs, and created web pages for the two SDKs in WordPress. Ali also worked as Webmaster and Marketing at Silk Road NOLA in 2015, where they designed and built website using Microsoft Publisher and Squarespace, and designed flyers and menus for various special events with MS Publisher. In 2016, they worked as an iOS Developer at MIT Media Lab: Changing Places. In 2017, they were a Software Developer at SAP Ariba, where they developed a system where customers could use an excel template to enter configuration data for their procurement web portal instead of writing the raw JSON by hand, wrote the backend code (in Java) to pull an existing customer's data from the database, pre-fill the excel template with any existing data, and serve it to the user, and wrote the backend code to parse an uploaded excel template, validate it, generate a tree structure to show any errors, warnings, or changes being made to the site map, and upon confirmation, insert the data into the database. In 2018, they worked as Student Researcher at MIT Computational Cognitive Science Group, where they worked on model-based learning for video games and worked on debugging, optimizing, and setting up environments for the learning agent. Ali also worked as Co-founder/Lead Developer at Guilt Machine, where they were developing a 2D platforming game in C#/Unity (project is on hold for now), designing the overall structure and specifications of the project’s code, and built a physics framework to heuristically simulate humanoid reactions to physics events. In 2019, they worked as a Data Scientist at Aliya Financial Technologies & Analytics, where they created machine learning models, including conversion propensity models and a lite version of a credit risk model that used 7x fewer features to capture ~96% of the power, refactored a proprietary feature selection tool to be modular, model-agnostic, more parallelizable, and run ~30x faster, and wrote tools to analyze its progress, and built a system to pick the optimal set of leads to send to multiple lenders. In 2020, they worked as a Software Developer at Prio, where they created a windows app to help split time among many tasks and manage procrastination, and features highly configurable timers that can track time spent on Windows 10’s virtual desktops and be reset based on cooldowns and dependencies on other timers. Ali is currently working as a Software Engineer at Nuna Inc. since 2021.

Ali Rahman attended Benjamin Franklin High School from 2011 to 2015. Ali then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2019.