Ahmed Essam
Senior Software Engineer at Brightskies
Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Essam is a senior software engineer based in Helwan, Cairo with four years of professional experience and a strong track record in cross-platform C++ and build-system work. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Synfig Studio—fixing rendering, workspace and Windows file issues—and maintains Conan Center recipes to help package C++ libraries across compilers and OSes. His background includes two Google Summer of Code stints (CGAL and Shogun ML), hands-on roles at the Egyptian Armed Forces and Rembrand, and a current senior engineering position at Brightskies. Known for practical bug-driven improvements and build reliability, he brings a pragmatic focus on portability and reproducible builds that often uncovers subtle platform-specific problems.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cairo University
Github Skills (23)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
c-language10
mson10
package-management10
animation10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
vector-graphics10
recipe10
package-manager-tool10
mesonbuild10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
gtkmm9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
synfig/synfig
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
This is the Official source code repository of the Synfig project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 24 commits, 16 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on bug fixes and minor improvements to the Synfig Studio codebase. Their contributions included addressing issues related to blur rendering, workspace switching, and waypoint deletion, demonstrating a focus on improving core animation functionality. Additionally, the user fixed a build issue related to the absence of the MLT library and addressed file saving issues on Windows, indicating a knowledge of the build process and cross-platform considerations. They also made adjustments to the build process to improve the loading of modules, particularly on Windows platforms.
animationgtkmmsynfigc-plus-plusvector-graphics
conan-io/conan-center-index
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 21 commits, 75 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributes to adding and updating recipes within the Conan Center Index, a repository for Conan package manager recipes. Their work focuses on creating recipes for C++ libraries, including libsigc++, glibmm, cairomm, libxmlpp, pangomm, atk, at-spi2-core, gdk-pixbuf, and graphene, adapting them for the Conan build system. This involves writing conanfile.py files, adjusting configurations, and addressing build issues specific to different compilers and operating systems. The user also makes adjustments to build requirements and patches source code.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
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