Karim Ahmed
Principal Engineer at Variety of customers
Crewe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarim Ahmed is a Principal Engineer with 16+ years building system tools, concurrent back-end servers and line-of-business applications, currently leading engineering at N2KODE Ltd and running his own consultancy. He blends deep C/C++ and .NET expertise with strong practices in TDD/BDD/DDD and a long-standing interest in game development and scripting languages like Lua and Python. An active open-source contributor, Karim has improved game-oriented libraries and engine tooling—adding sprite-sorting callbacks and CMake project generation to well-used projects—demonstrating practical mastery of low-level performance and build systems. Comfortable across Windows APIs, COM, ORM and installers, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural thinking to deliver robust, multithreaded systems. Based in Crewe, UK, he brings an engineer’s curiosity and a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions across startups and client engagements.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Electronics & Communication Engineering, BSc Electronics & Communication Engineering at Alexandria Institute of Technology
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
game-engine10
gameplay10
game-dev10
cmake10
cross-platform10
c1110
videogames10
standard-library10
c1710
engine10
c-library10
common-library10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gameplay3d/gameplay
Aug 2012 - Oct 2013
Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Karim contributed to the CMake generation scripts, specifically modifying the `gameplay-newproject.sh` and `.bat` files to include CMake files. These changes enabled CMake generation from a project template, streamlining the setup process for new projects. Further commits show reverting and merging of changes, indicating work on integrating code changes from the 'next' and 'master' branches, and adding/modifying functionality for the physics engine. These changes touched on Lua bindings for physics rigid bodies, and other changes to core engine functionality, highlighting the user's role in backend development.
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RandyGaul/cute_headers
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Collection of cross-platform one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily used for games
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Karim focused on improving the functionality of the `cute_spritebatch` library. Their contributions include fixing compilation errors, resolving sprite sorting issues, and adding an optional callback for custom sprite sorting algorithms. They also implemented initial support for premade atlases and refactored the code by using `SPRITEBATCH_MEMSET`. The user demonstrated proficiency in C/C++ and in understanding and implementing game-related algorithms.
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