Basem Emara
Founding Engineer at Walapay
Greater Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBasem Emara is a founding engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile apps, AI platforms, Web3 dApps, and smart contracts for startups and high-growth ventures. He has repeatedly led product architecture and hands-on implementation—from fintech and healthcare AI to blockchain payments—scaling systems to support thousands of users and billions in monthly value. Known for shipping fast, he delivered multi-product SaaS backends, real-time trading apps, and mission-critical iOS experiences (including WWDC-featured App Clips) while mentoring large engineering teams. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced popular iOS UI libraries by extending UIViewController integration and adding customizable animations. Based in Greater Kuala Lumpur, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep systems thinking and a knack for turning new tech cycles (mobile, Web3, AI) into production-grade products.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (7)
uid10
swift10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
animation10
ios-animation9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ninjaprox/NVActivityIndicatorView
May 2016 - Jun 2016
A collection of awesome loading animations
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Basem primarily contributed to the UI of the iOS activity indicator library. They added a protocol extension to integrate the activity indicator with UIViewController, enabling easy display and control. The user implemented features such as starting and stopping animations, including a message display. They also modified the core NVActivityIndicatorView to expose global defaults, and enhanced the animation functionality by adding custom animation capabilities.
cocoapodsloading-animationsanimationios-uiios-lib
basememara/PrayKit
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Prayer and Qibla library used to power Pray Watch app
Contributions:2 reviews, 54 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
qiblapythonprayerpower
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