Galal Hassan
Senior Software Engineer at Major League Baseball (MLB)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGalal Hassan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of professional experience and a PhD-level research background in computer science. He has led engineering teams and shipped scalable systems across game engines, cloud services, and IIoT, most recently contributing to MLB and previously driving core services and ML-powered animation tooling at Unity. Galal blends hands-on systems architecture (matchmaking, rules engines, Dockerized migrations) with research-driven solutions for sensors and medical training, showing a rare mix of production engineering and academic rigor. He co-founded multiple studios and startups, architected cloud-native game backends, and reduced server setup time from a week to an hour through containerization. Comfortable moving between embedded firmware, backend infrastructure, and spatial/AR prototyping (Apple Vision Pro, PolySpatial), he’s known for turning experimental ideas into practical prototypes that accelerate product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for complex problem-solving, mentorship, and bridging research prototypes into production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Queen's UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Systems and Software Engineering at University of GreenwichBachelor Engineering, Bachelor Engineering at Modern Sciences and Arts University
English
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Github Skills (66)
ims10
android10
matchmaking10
kamailio9
udp-socket9
android-apps9
ruby9
automation9
docker-image9
ios9
docker9
epc9
reward9
open5gs9
fastlane9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
galalmounir/unityUdpClient
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
A UDP client made in Unity for the GAME3110 class
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
unity-3dunityquakeudpudp-client
galalmounir/lorthon
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
A python wrapper for libloragw from Lora-net/lora_gateway/libloragw/
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
pythonlora-gatewaypython-wrappergatewaylora
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