Engineer @ Snap
Building performance-critical iOS systems across media delivery, storage, diagnostics, and network quality for products at massive scale.
"... a creative mind pursues a life of purpose."
DESIGNERDEVELOPER
Los AngelesEngineering @ SnapPhotography / Design / Systems
Identity
I build with an engineer's rigor and a photographer's eye.
I'm Abraham Belayneh, a software engineer, designer, and photographer based in Los Angeles. My work moves between product systems, visual storytelling, and the communities that form around both.
At Snap, I work on core mobile infrastructure that reaches 800M+ users. I'm drawn to product work where engineering taste matters: fast surfaces, thoughtful defaults, reliable systems, and tiny details that change how people feel inside an app.
I'm especially interested in AI as a product layer, not just a technical category. The exciting part is turning powerful models into tools that feel personal, useful, and creatively amplifying: software that helps people make decisions, express themselves, learn faster, and build with less friction.
Outside of engineering, I create visual media through ALTERA Studios and explore the overlap between design, AI, climate, and social impact.
Photographer / visual artist
Creating cinematic visual work for people, brands, artists, and scenes with a focus on mood, composition, and honest presence.
Designer / creative technologist
Blending software, taste, and product intuition to make digital experiences feel precise, expressive, and useful.
Experience
Systems work with product consequences.
From mobile infrastructure at Snap to cloud tooling at NVIDIA, I like work where technical decisions become visible in speed, reliability, and user experience.
CurrentCompany site
Snap
Software Engineer
Building network, storage, and diagnostics systems for Snapchat iOS, including production rollouts to millions of users.
2024Company site
Snap
Client Foundation Intern
Contributed to Snapchat's native iPad app and real-time page metrics for developer visibility into feature performance.
2023Company site
NVIDIA
Cloud Optimization Intern
Built internal leasing tools for 2,000+ employees, reducing average lease usage time by 20% and equipment downtime by 15%.
2022Company site
NVIDIA
Cloud Infrastructure Intern
Improved cloud Web UI deployment workflows using Docker and React-based tooling, reducing pipeline load time by 70%.
What I'm building next!
AI products that feel personal, visual, and genuinely useful.
I'm exploring the space between product taste and model capability: tools that help people think clearly, create faster, and make better decisions without losing their own voice.
Product experiments
Personal AI tools
Small, useful agents for reflection, decision-making, creative planning, and turning scattered thoughts into structured workflows.
Visual systems
Creative model playgrounds
Experiments around AI-assisted art direction, image understanding, and tools that help creators move from mood to finished asset faster.
Applied AI
Product-facing AI demos
Interfaces that make model behavior feel legible, controllable, and genuinely helpful instead of hidden behind a generic chat box.