# Ali Alshehri

> Ali Alshehri is a software engineer at Sarj AI who cares about performance and the small details. He contributes to open source, including react-native-screens and react-native-healthkit, and writes about what he builds.

In his words: “I’ve built web and mobile products end to end. Outside of work, I contribute to open source, build my own packages, and sometimes experiment with random stuff just to see how it works.”

This file indexes https://www.ali-sh.com; every post also has a clean Markdown version at the same URL with `.md` appended. The full text of the site is at [llms-full.txt](https://www.ali-sh.com/llms-full.txt).

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.ali-sh.com/): Introduction, latest writing and a short bio
- [Info](https://www.ali-sh.com/info): About Ali, open-source work and experience
- [Writing](https://www.ali-sh.com/posts): All posts, newest first
- [Contact](https://www.ali-sh.com/contact): Email and profiles

## Writing

- [Why is Unistyles Goated](https://www.ali-sh.com/posts/why-is-unistyles-goated.md): Why Unistyles is the React Native styling library I’d pick: no re‑renders from style changes, centralized theming and native level performance.
- [From 200 Line Nightmare to 10x Speed: Optimizing SQL Like a Pro](https://www.ali-sh.com/posts/200-line-nightmare.md): I inherited a messy 200-line SQL query and made it 10x faster. Here’s how I optimized the queries, separated concerns and made the code actually maintainable.
- [Performance or Aesthetics? Finding the Balance](https://www.ali-sh.com/posts/perf-vs-aesthetics.md): Good visuals make a site nicer to use, but they slow it down if you don’t optimize them. Techniques and tools for building sites that look good, load fast and stay responsive.

## Experience

- [Sarj AI](https://sarj.ai) (1 mo)
  - Software Engineer, Nov 2026 – present
- [Netzero](https://netzero.sa) (2 yr 5 mo)
  - Software Engineer II, Jun 2026 – Nov 2026
  - Software Engineer, Jul 2024 – Jun 2026
- [Wavez](https://wavez.sa) (2 yr 7 mo)
  - Full-Stack Developer, May 2024 – present

## Open source

- [react-native-screens](https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens): 14M+ weekly downloads
- [react-native-healthkit](https://github.com/kingstinct/react-native-healthkit): 560K+ weekly downloads

## Profiles

- [Email](mailto:ali0alshehri@outlook.com): ali0alshehri@outlook.com
- [GitHub](https://github.com/AlshehriAli0): AlshehriAli0
- [X](https://x.com/alicantcode): @alicantcode
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-alshehri-340b26284): in/ali-alshehri

## Optional

- [Full text](https://www.ali-sh.com/llms-full.txt): The about text, experience and every post in one Markdown file
- [RSS feed](https://www.ali-sh.com/feed.xml): Every post, full text
- [Sitemap](https://www.ali-sh.com/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL