Kamel Abdous
Quantitative Developer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKamel Abdous is a quantitative developer based in Montreal with 8 years of experience bridging research-grade machine learning and production systems. He completed a PhD focused on advancing Graph Neural Network architectures—achieving roughly 25% accuracy gains over prior work—and has translated those research skills into production roles, including building a B2B recommender API used during a 4,000+ attendee event. His background includes high-performance systems work at MIT where he helped make an automatic code-optimization module and deep-learning runtimes dramatically faster, and open-source contributions implementing algorithms and data structures in C for large community projects. Now at Squarepoint Capital, he applies ML, probabilistic modeling and software engineering to quantitative problems, combining low-level C/C++ optimization experience with PyTorch, Python tooling, and deployed APIs. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he pairs deep theoretical expertise with hands-on systems tuning—everything from compiler-level speedups to production recommender endpoints.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English, Kabyle
Github Skills (12)
c1710
data-structures10
c1110
data-structure10
avl-tree9
btree9
algorithms9
game-development7
math7
sdl7
maths7
algorithm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGenus/cosmos
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
World's largest Contributor driven code dataset | Used in Quark Search Engine, @OpenGenus IQ, OpenGenus Visual Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 150 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kamel primarily contributed to the development of various algorithms and data structures, focusing on the implementation of the median-of-medians algorithm, 2-sum solution using an AVL tree in C. They further developed a B-Tree implementation with associated header and source files. The user also implemented Conway's Game of Life using C and SDL.
datastructuresinternshipcontributordatasetopengenus
abdouskamel/Molecular-Graph-Generation
Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
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