(000 / Index)UC Irvine — Class of 2028
Abubakr Elmallah
iOS App Developer/CS @ UCI
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
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
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.
