Farook Al-sammarraie
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolFarook Al-sammarraie is a versatile freelance software engineer based in Turkey with six years of professional experience spanning game development, full-stack systems, and tooling. He maintains and contributes to Crow, a high-performance open-source C++ web framework with thousands of stars, where he’s focused on HTTP server internals, streaming responses, and performance fixes. Comfortable across Unity/Unreal, Qt/Kirigami, backend services, and asset pipelines, Farook has repeatedly accelerated projects by redesigning network layers and creating cross-project libraries that cut load times and maintenance overhead. He’s led small engineering teams, introduced pragmatic agile workflows, and built project-specific processes that enabled zero-downtime refactors and faster feature delivery. Notably, his background in 3D art and audio gives him an uncommon full-stack perspective on multimedia optimization and real-time performance. He thrives on solving whatever problem is blocking progress, from low-level protocol fixes to game asset optimization.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Antalya Bilim University
English, Arabic, Turkish, French, German
Stackoverflow
363reputation
370kreached
11answers
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Github Skills (16)
http10
web-framework10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
websocket9
ssl8
cpp-templates7
c-templates7
json6
crow6
lockfile6
flask-restful6
python6
rest6
flutter6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CrowCpp/Crow
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 384 reviews, 850 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Farook primarily worked on the internal logic of the CrowCpp project, particularly focused on the HTTP server and web framework aspects. Their contributions included refactoring the mime type generating script, fixing type mismatches related to SSL, adding initial chunk sending code, fixing MIME type issues, and removing the deprecated sendfile function. They also added a 405 error, developed basic multipart data structure, and implemented features to support streaming of response bodies.
cppmicroframeworkjavascriptframeworkbeast
The-EDev/crow
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)
Contributions:7 releases, 31 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
pythonflaskframeworkpython-flaskwebframework
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