The beginning
I studied accounting to understand the language of business.
Accounting taught me how organizations think about money, risk, performance, and decision-making.
Assets = Liabilities + Equity
About Ali
Serious about the work. Curious about almost everything else.
I’m a CPA, process improvement professional, systems thinker, occasional website builder, husband, dad, traveller, and persistent asker of “Why does it work this way?”
CPAprocessesWebflowAILos Angeleswhy?The short version
Internal audit
Audit gave me access to the whole organization.
What fascinated me wasn’t checking boxes. Every company felt like a puzzle: strategy, sales, operations, technology, finance, and risk all had to work together.
The shift
I became more interested in improving the process than reviewing it.
I wanted to redesign the workflow, simplify the control, automate repetitive work, and help build the system that made the process better.
Review→Improve
Outside the job description
Curiosity kept taking me somewhere new.
Process improvement led to systems and automation. Independent projects led to strategy, branding, copy, Webflow, and learning how to make ideas tangible.
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How I work
Make the complicated understandable.
Complexity may be unavoidable behind the scenes. Confusion on the page usually isn’t.
Understand the whole system
See how people, processes, technology, information, and risk connect.
Identify what isn’t working
Find friction, duplication, unclear ownership, and manual effort.
Build what fits
Choose the process, system, automation, story, or tool that suits the situation.
Make it usable
Explain it clearly and design it around the people who will use it.
Currently curious about
The tabs currently open in my brain.
AI and knowledge workWhy bad processes surviveBuilding on the webLife in Los AngelesTravelRaising a familyWhat comes next
The professional version
CPA · 8+ years across audit, controls, systems, and process improvement.
My career has included internal audit, risk advisory, financial systems implementation, automation, and business process improvement across regulated and complex organizations.
Still figuring things out