Hussama Ismail
Senior Software Engineer at Collibra
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolHussama Ismail is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brussels with 11 years of experience building backend systems, currently working on Java 21 and Spring Framework projects at Collibra. He has a strong background in data-intensive cloud services and has contributed as a Scrum Master and mentor while helping onboard new hires. His past work spans AWS-hosted microservices, native-performance Java integrations (co-authoring hnswlib-jna for fast nearest-neighbor search), and cryptographic firmware-level implementations. Hussama combines formal training in software verification (MSc) with hands-on CI/CD practice across Jenkins, Sonar and Artifactory, giving him a pragmatic focus on reliability and security. He’s comfortable bridging research-grade algorithms and production systems, and has experience shipping large-scale mobile and web applications earlier in his career. Colleagues know him for translating complex requirements into maintainable, well-tested code while contributing to hiring and team practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician, Computer Technician at FUCAPIMSc in Electrical Engineering, Formal Software Verification, MSc in Electrical Engineering, Formal Software Verification at Federal University of Amazonas
Portuguese, English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (33)
keccak10
approximate10
neighbors10
nearest-neighbors9
buildkite9
sentence9
electra9
hugo9
similarity9
travis9
travis-ci9
sentence-similarity9
roberta9
nlp8
hnswlib8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stepstone-tech/hnswlib-jna
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Native-Like Performance for Nearest Neighbor Search in Java Applications using Hnswlib and Java Native Access
Contributions:10 releases, 3 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
nearest-neighbortypesensejava-native-accessnearesthnswlib
hussamaa/ssp-socket
May 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 11 months
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