My Notes
Everything I had written down for myself, written out properly for once.
(000 / Index)UC Irvine · Class of 2028
Abubakr Elmallah
iOS App Developer/CS @ UCI
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About
The short version.
I’m Abubakr, an aspiring software engineer specializing in iOS development with SwiftUI.
I have strong experience in Swift, Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Bash across macOS and Windows. Right now I’m an iOS Developer at UCI, and I’ve previously taught iOS App Development at the STEM Academy.
I won the Congressional App Challenge in 2023 and the Swift Student Challenge in 2024. You can see everything I’ve built on my Projects page.
- Focus
- iOS development (SwiftUI)
- Languages
- Swift, Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, Bash
- Roles
- iOS Developer @ UCI · Former iOS Teacher @ STEM Academy
- Awards
- Congressional App Challenge ’23 · Swift Student Challenge ’24
- School
- UC Irvine · CS · Class of 2028
- Status
- Open to internships
- Based
- Irvine, California
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What this is
Why the site exists.This site is my legacy. Everything I am, in one place, and none of it buried.
My whole life is already on my devices, and it is unreadable. Notes is a pile. Files is a pile. Photos is years deep and sorted by nothing but the day I happened to take the picture. Every single thing in there matters to me, and not one of it is findable.
So I rebuilt it. This is the same material — the apps I have shipped, the school years, the places I have been, my faith, the worlds I grew up inside — taken out of three overcrowded apps and laid out properly: uncrowded, one click from the front door, and made beautiful on purpose rather than by accident.
And it is the one place where the two halves of me are the same thing. I love computer science and I love all of this, and here they are not separate hobbies: every page is hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, which means the technology I love is the material my personality is made out of. That is the part I like best.
My Files
The work itself: every app, every project, every certificate, with the receipts.
My Photos
Shown where they mean something — the trips, the school years, Apple Park.
And me
My faith, my family’s language, and the thirty-odd worlds I love. Not a résumé.
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WWDC 2024
Cupertino · Apple Park.Every June, Apple holds its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park in Cupertino, a week where developers from all over the world gather for Apple’s biggest announcements, hands-on labs, and sessions. I had the chance to attend in 2024, and it was unforgettable: walking the Apple Park campus, meeting Tim Cook, and standing under the WWDC24 sign was an absolute pleasure, easily one of the highlights of my life so far. Apple Park itself is genuinely breathtaking in person.
Swift Student Challenge
🏆 Issued by AppleJune 2024Awarded in my senior year of high school
The reason I was there was the Swift Student Challenge, Apple’s annual competition where students around the world build an interactive app in Swift and tell the story behind it. Each year only a few hundred students are selected out of tens of thousands of submissions. I won in 2024 for Al-Quran, my app for learning and studying the Holy Quran, which also earned a personal congratulatory letter from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Relations team. Being recognized among student developers from across the globe, and getting to celebrate it at Apple Park, meant the world to me.
I was selected from thousands of high school and college students worldwide while still in high school, which is the part I am proudest of: the win came in my senior year at Trabuco Hills, and the invitation meant I flew to Cupertino days after graduating, still technically a high schooler. The year before, in December 2023, I had won the Congressional App Challenge for Al-Islam — also as a senior — so both honors on my high school page were earned before I started at UCI.
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Contact
Say something.E.L.M.A.L.L.A.H.
Embedded Logic Matrix · Adaptive Learning, Language & Archive Hub. A Star Wars holotable in UCI blue and gold, Trabuco blue and Islamic green. Spinning holocron, drifting starfield, sector scan, stardate.
ENGAGE ↗J.A.R.V.I.S.
A Stark-inspired heads-up display of everything above: arc reactor, live chronometer with the Hijri date, telemetry, and every page wired into one console.
BOOT INTERFACE ↗H.O.L.O.C.R.O.N.
A Jedi archive terminal: a holocron turning inside a projector cone, kyber readings, a Galactic Standard stardate, and every page on this site filed as an archive entry.
UNSEAL ARCHIVE ↗The Marauder's Map
The same idea on parchment instead of glass: every room on this site drawn as a corridor, footprints that move on their own, and a button that wipes the whole thing blank.
I SOLEMNLY SWEAR ↗