Karim Ratib
MusicXML Spec Editor at Quartech
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKarim Ratib is a pragmatic Solutions Architect with 15 years of experience building and leading small, effective engineering teams that favor simplicity, open source, and measurable outcomes. Currently at Quartech after roles at Internet Archive and a long engineering-management tenure at Meedan, he blends hands-on development with architectural strategy to avoid unnecessary process and immature technologies. He co-founded OpenCraft early in his career and holds an MS in Computer Science from Université de Montréal, grounding his work in strong academic and entrepreneurial roots. An active open-source contributor, Karim has improved front-end rendering and notation features in the widely used VexFlow music-notation library, demonstrating attention to user-facing detail and correctness. Colleagues know him for a no-nonsense, get-things-done approach and a preference for small, proactive teams where responsibility is shared.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Université de MontréalBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The American University in Cairo
French, English, Arabic, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
front-end-development10
testing10
html9
content-management-system6
drupal6
twitter6
docker-compose6
internationalization6
drupal-module6
android6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
0xfe/vexflow
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
A JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 61 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Karim primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the VexFlow library, focusing on improvements to the front-end rendering of music notation. Their work included enhancing glyph viewing capabilities, supporting microtones, and adjusting the positioning of UI elements. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to accidentals within the EasyScore component and made code modifications for release versioning.
javascriptrendering
infojunkie/ireal-musicxml
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
iReal Pro to MusicXML converter.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 228 commits in 2 years 2 months
musicxmlirealpromusic-i18n
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