Mohamed Alborati

I started in electronics retail. Marcy Camera in Brooklyn, ages 14 and up — fixing tape decks, talking to walk-in customers, learning that the difference between "this works" and "this ships" is mostly persistence. Before that, and alongside school, I paid my way by moving furniture and doing fit modeling, and taught STEM to kids ages 4–14 as an educator at Engineering for Kids. Range and grit: both came early.

CUNY came next — a B.Tech in Computer Engineering Technology and an A.A.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology, CUNY — New York City College of Technology, plus a research stint co-authoring peer-reviewed computer vision for robotics work with Prof. Lili Ma at CUNY City Tech: onboard vision on VEX platforms (IEEE 2018), visual servoing in undergraduate robotics (IEEE 2019), multi-robot wireless coordination (IEEE 2019), and camera-calibrated localization for mobile robots — published as a journal paper in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics (Inderscience, 2022). Two disciplines, two degree types, and a research line that spans conference work through a peer-reviewed journal: the academic and cross-domain base that the later regulated work relied on.

NPower Tech Service Corps came after that — fifteen weeks of full-stack training built specifically to land working-class New Yorkers in real engineering jobs. I went in as a kid who could solder and came out with a placement and a clearer sense of what the work could be.

NPower placed me into an internship at NYU's Governance Lab, on Re:coded — a tech-education initiative for people displaced by conflict, working with UNHCR. First time I saw software aimed at people whose stakes were existential, not commercial. It set the bar for what "the app has to work" means.

Then Scripps Networks — but as a product manager, not an engineer. I owned the Food.com login flow: the least glamorous, most consequential screen in any product, the one every single user hits. Learning to own an outcome instead of a ticket is a different muscle, and it's the one that makes the architecture work later.

Cognizant came next, embedded with Discover Financial as a QA Lead. Quality at a financial institution isn't "find the bugs" — it's "prove the thing is correct before it touches someone's money." That discipline is the spine of the regulated work I'd do later.

At Wipro I was placed on the DISH Network engagement in Denver. Two big builds came out of that year: the OTA Signal Meter app, which paired with a Bluetooth hardware device and gave the technical artifact that enabled a major carrier deal; and the MyDISH modernization, which took a 1M+ user Android app from Java + on-prem to Kotlin + AWS. I led the offshore side, then helped reorganize the engineering teams into a BAU track and a New Tech track — that was the first time I did organizational work in addition to engineering work, and I learned I liked it.

After Wipro I moved to AgreeYa, contracted to Deloitte's engagement with Eli Lilly on the Tempo connected diabetes platform — a Class II Software as a Medical Device — a connected diabetes platform that received FDA 510(k) clearance in 2022 and CE marking the same year. I led the Android architecture, managed an offshore team of 10+ across a 24-hour development cycle, delivered the documentation that supported regulatory clearance, and built a Kotlin Multi-Platform proof-of-concept that cut development time on later features by more than two months.

Then Wayfair — Senior Android Engineer, started as a contract engagement through Alborati LLC, converted to full-time within months. Built the Wayfair Financing integration on Android with the major BNPL lenders, then led the Android side of the Wayfair Rewards launch in October 2024 — the $29/year paid loyalty program covering five Wayfair brands. Won seven internal recognition awards in the first year. Still there, now Android Lead on Loyalty & Financing.

Underneath all of that, TeddyMozart — a Brooklyn smart-toy startup I co-founded in 2016. Bluetooth-connected teddy bear paired with a mobile app. Forbes 2016 connected toys gift guide. QVC. It's still on shelves a decade later. The arc starts there in some ways — TeddyMozart was the first time I worked at every layer simultaneously, on a real product, with real consequences.

Alborati LLC is the synthesis of all of it. One person. Every layer. By design.