Karim Elmougi
Senior Software Engineer at Lightstep
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKarim Elmougi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with 9 years building high-performance, latency-sensitive systems across advertising, security, gaming, and observability domains. He currently contributes to Lightstep’s log database compatibility work and previously maintained services handling over 1.2M real-time ad bid requests per second at Samsung Ads, where his IPv6 and GeoIP migrations materially increased impressions. Karim has a strong operational and DevOps mindset—automating AI platform runtimes at Element AI, cutting CI build times by 70% for Ubisoft, and adding diagnostics and emulation tooling for Genetec’s security products. He combines systems-level engineering with pragmatic automation to reduce support overhead and boost throughput, and is comfortable designing compatibility layers and high-availability integrations for production-critical services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French
Github Skills (42)
tui10
filesystem10
java10
file-manager10
file-explorer10
data-structures10
helix10
algorithm9
algorithms9
linux9
windows9
command-line9
android9
vim9
concurrency9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
karimElmougi/firesim
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
karimElmougi/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:86 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
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