Ajmal Sharif
Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjmal Sharif is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building developer-facing tooling and build infrastructure at Bloomberg in New York. He specializes in binary and source code analysis, automated refactoring, and link-time tooling—authoring llcalc, an ELF linker simulator used company-wide to resolve cyclical dependencies. A former researcher in secure architectures and memory safety, he blends systems-level research (including hardware-accelerated memory safety and LLVM work) with pragmatic production engineering. He mentors and teaches—running internal hackathons, serving as a training fellow for interns, and judging external competitions—bridging deep technical work with developer enablement. His background spans mechanical and nanotechnology studies through to a computer science degree, reflecting an uncommon mix of hardware-minded research and software craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A.S., Engineering Science, A.S., Engineering Science at Nassau Community CollegeMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityNanotechnology, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory, Nanotechnology, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory at Columbia Engineering
Persian
Github Skills (14)
picture-in-picture10
roku10
chromecast10
tizen-tv10
playing9
apple-tv9
skip8
clang8
youtube8
replay7
python7
static-analysis6
cpp6
bazel6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HaltCatchFire/clangmetatool
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
A framework for reusing code in Clang tools
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
cppclang
HaltCatchFire/iSponsorBlockTV
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Automatically skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos playing on Apple TV.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 17 days
picture-in-pictureappletvsegmentsskipvideos
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