Firas Al-khalil
Software Engineer at Faveod
Lebanon
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolFiras Al-khalil is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in software design, API development, and security, currently driving engineering work at Faveod from Lebanon. His background blends academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science and a postdoctoral stint at University College Cork—with hands-on R&D and backend engineering across startups and product teams. He has repeatedly moved between research and product roles, turning complex algorithms and architecture into maintainable, production-ready systems. Early work on game server maintenance and in-house tooling demonstrates a knack for pragmatic engineering, while multiple R&D positions show a curiosity for novel solutions. Fluent in both research and applied engineering, he brings a measured, security-minded approach to API and system architecture.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Master, Software Engineering, PhD, Computer Science, Master, Software Engineering at Université de la Polynésie Française
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (90)
parser10
tree-sitter10
rust10
magit10
yard10
arel10
innerhtml10
tui10
parsing10
eslint-plugin10
war9
rdoc9
cli9
yardoc9
security9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stackmystack/tree-sitter
Jul 2022 - Dec 2025
An incremental parsing system for programming tools
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
incrementalincremental-parsingtree-sitterprogramming-toolsparsing
stackmystack/arel-extensions
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025
Extending Arel
Contributions:46 PRs, 605 pushes, 56 branches in 4 years
extensionsnim-langbuild-systemarel
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