Tarek Ismail

Software Engineer

Cairo, Egypt1 yr 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Proficient in multiple programming languages.
Experience in open-source software development.
Strong background in game development and mentoring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in Open Source Software and Game Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

C++WaylandLinux KernelDevice DriversOpen-source SoftwareOpenglPythonJavaGame DevelopmentMentoring

Other Skills

3D ModelingBashBlenderC (Programming Language)C#Cadence VirtuosoCinema 4DComputer GraphicsDaVinci ResolveInformation TechnologyLicense ManagementMATLABNode.jsOpen-Source DevelopmentOpenGL ES

About

A freshly graduated Computer Engineer with experience using C++, Python, and Java among many other Languages. Keen on anything software related and especially computer graphics!

Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Canonical

2 roles

Associate Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Remote

Graduate Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

Working on https://github.com/canonical/mir, a highly extensible C++ library for building Wayland compositors. Things I worked on include: implementing Wayland protocols, fixing bugs, and adding various kinds of features. Examples include: Accessibility methods and user-facing APIs for window decorations.

C++WaylandBash

Siemens digital industries software

Embedded Software Engineer

Mar 2024 – May 2024 · 2 mos · New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt · Hybrid

Did a deep overview of the Linux DRM and KMS subsystems, covering userspace applications, the kernel IOCTL interface and libdrm, through the kernel core, and down to DRM drivers.
Wrote the skeleton for a Displayport driver.

C (Programming Language)Device DriversLinux Kernel

Google summer of code

Open Source Developer

May 2023 – Nov 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

Contributing to Splash. An open source video projector mapping software.

C++Open-Source SoftwareOpen-Source DevelopmentOpenGL ESOpenGL

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Game Developer and Mentor

Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 · 2 mos · Cairo, Egypt

Mentor:
Creating and presenting tutorials on the basics of game development, usually along with their own example projects.
Planning tasks to apply learned concepts and supervising their progress.
Overseeing game proposals for the final project.
Mentoring throughout project implementation.
Game Developer:
Proposing my own idea for an educational game.
Implementation, playtesting, revising systems, and polishing.
Releasing Math Rock.

C#Game DevelopmentMentoring

Master micro

2 roles

Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cairo, Egypt

Integration with other applications and libraries (Cadence Virtuoso, FlexNet Publisher)
UI testing using SikuliX.
Implementing new features, investigating and fixing bugs.
Handling design and maintenance of the licensing system.
Creating new releases for ADTv1.
Refactoring and code architecture improvements.
Documenting existing major components and their tests. Creating contribution guides.

Python (Programming Language)SQLiteNode.jsCadence VirtuosoQtLicense Management+3

Software Engineering Intern

Oct 2021 – Dec 2021 · 2 mos

The sparks foundation

IoT & Computer Vision intern

Oct 2021 – Nov 2021 · 1 mo

Motivated by the lack of wearing face masks during COVID, I chose to work on the face mask detection project. This project used a CNN to detect whether the user was wearing a face mask or not. It could work with still images, videos, or webcam video streams.