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Farah Ali
Advisory Board Member, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, Foster School of Business @Uw Foster School Of Business
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Advisory Board Member, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, Foster School of Business @Uw Foster School Of Business
Seattle, WA, US
Advisory board member at the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The center is a part of the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and is a dynamic, interdisciplinary entrepreneurship center, offering students robust experiential and educational resources. The focus is on creating the next generation of entrepreneurial talent, as well as producing an exciting collection of student-led startups. The goal is to cultivate entrepreneurial skill sets in students that lead them to impact the world in positive ways.
EDUCATION
City University of Seattle
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Mathematics
SKILLS
ABOUT FARAH ALI
Farah Ali is VP engineering at Electronic Arts as well as a board member, advisor and speaker. She has led teams building core infrastructure to support massively online games, developer applications for EA’s studios, and applied research initiatives with SEED to help game teams navigate a rapidly evolving technological landscape. She has also driven a culture of grassroots innovation through dedicated programs and built strategic partnerships across academia, startups, industry, and Tech M&A. Farah is currently leading EA’s technical strategy and execution to deliver transformative AI solutions across the game development pipeline.A builder at heart, Farah specializes in scaling high-performing engineering organizations and delivering complex, distributed systems that support millions of users. Her experience spans applications, online services, large-scale data platforms, and machine learning systems, always with a focus on translating deep technical insight into meaningful business and player impact.Previously, Farah was the Co-Founder and CTO of FreightWeb, a Madrona and 8VC-backed logistics technology startup developing a modern partial-truckload shipping platform. Before that, she served as VP of Engineering at EA, reporting to the CTO, where she helped architect the systems powering EA’s global player network. She also led engineering teams at eBay, driving core Shipping & Logistics, Shipping Science, and infrastructure initiatives that leveraged massive data sets and advanced machine learning to improve buyer and seller experiences. Farah began her career at Microsoft, progressing from software engineer to engineering leader across multiple product groups.Farah is deeply engaged in the startup ecosystem as an investor, advisor, and board member. She serves on the advisory board of the University of Washington’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and has taught software entrepreneurship as an Affiliate Instructor at UW. She is also an advisor and LP at Embedded Ventures a deep tech VC fund and at various startups. Her passion for innovation, operational excellence, and mentorship extends beyond industry.She is Founder and President, One Good Act, a nonprofit focused on empowering communities through education, healthcare, and advocacy, and Co-Founder of PWiC, an international community advancing representation for women in STEM.Farah is driven by impact: building technologies that matter, cultivating the next generation of leaders, and creating pathways for underrepresented communities to thrive.
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