Mo Firouz
Co-Founder & COO at Heroic Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMo Firouz is a engineer and operator with 11 years’ experience building highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and streaming technologies. As Co-Founder and COO of Heroic Labs (a Y Combinator company), he helps deliver social and realtime infrastructure for multiplayer games, while remaining a hands-on back-end contributor to the open-source Nakama server. His background spans designing cross-language architectures (Go, Java, Elixir) and production-grade database and server-side optimizations, with concrete contributions to CLI tooling, storage queries, and health checks. Based in London, he pairs startup leadership and product strategy with deep technical involvement, and is active in the founders’ philanthropy network through Founders Pledge.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Github Skills (9)
database-management10
logging10
go10
postgresql10
sql10
back-end-development10
server10
server-side10
grpc8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
heroiclabs/nakama
Feb 2017 - May 2021
Scalable open-source game backend server: multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat, and social features for games.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 180 commits, 152 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mo contributed to the server CLI by adding a verbose logging option. Further contributions included adjustments to storage queries and fixing verbose mode, alongside updating friend-related functionalities to accept UserIDs as bytes. The user also made improvements to group SQL queries by including type information, demonstrating a focus on database interactions and server-side logic within the Nakama project. Finally, they worked on fixing the root healthcheck endpoint.
backendmultiplayernakamagame-frameworkunreal-engine
heroiclabs/nakama-docs
Jul 2017 - Mar 2022
Documentation for Nakama social and realtime server.
Contributions:10 reviews, 75 commits, 84 PRs in 4 years 9 months
nakamamiddlemangame-serverrealtime-servernakama-social
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