Ahmed Harmouche
Chief Executive Officer at Toptal
Pécs, Hungary
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Top SchoolAhmed Harmouche is a software leader and CEO with 11 years of hands-on engineering and entrepreneurial experience, currently running Softwired Technologies from Pécs, Hungary. He blends deep technical expertise—spanning native iOS/Android, C++, Qt, Python, OpenGL/WebGPU and backend systems—with product leadership honed as co-founder and CTO of VIMAGE, where he shipped an AI-powered app to 100k+ downloads. As a senior freelancer at Toptal he delivers cross-platform and image-processing solutions, and at Varian he applied his skills to medical imaging and Surface Guided Radiotherapy. Ahmed contributes to notable open-source projects like tinygrad, where he fixed WebGPU renderer issues and adapted model export paths to support multi-input/output workflows, reflecting strong graphics and ML-deployment chops. He holds advanced training in medical imaging (PhD track) and an MD, a combination that informs his pragmatic approach to healthcare-related engineering problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-founder who moves quickly from research ideas to production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ciszterci Rend Nagy Lajos Gimnáziuma és KollégiumaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Imaging, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Imaging at University of Pécs
Hungarian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
wgsl10
webgpu10
graphics-programming10
python9
windows-phone9
exports8
data-export8
exporter8
listview6
iframe6
webview6
android6
xaml6
windows-runtime6
zxing6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tinygrad/tinygrad
Nov 2021 - Jan 2026
You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & WebGPU/Graphics Engineer
Back-end Developer & WebGPU/Graphics EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 95 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on addressing and fixing WebGPU-related issues within the `tinygrad` project. They resolved cast errors in the WGSL renderer and implemented fixes to ensure the stable diffusion example functioned correctly in WebGPU. Furthermore, the user modified the model export process to correctly handle multiple inputs and output sizes when exporting models for WebGPU, demonstrating a strong understanding of the graphics API and rendering pipeline. They also worked on performance improvements related to the WebGPU build.
pytorch
wpmed92/RiscyD2
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A RISC-V based microcontroller
Contributions:2 releases, 101 commits, 74 PRs in 4 months
microcontrollerrisc-vcpuhardwarepython
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