Nassir Al-awar
Senior Software Engineer at Riot Games
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNassir Al-awar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Santa Monica with eight years of experience building performant systems across gaming, fintech, IoT, and embedded domains. Currently at Riot Games, he brings deep strengths in architecture and code optimization, having repeatedly succeeded when thrown into unfamiliar projects and systems. His background spans Android, C#, C/C++, Kotlin, and Node.js, and includes lead engineering on fraud prevention at American Express and end-to-end IoT app delivery. An active open-source contributor, he implemented Docker-based server tooling and precise combat math fixes for a popular FFXI emulator, showing both practical ops skills and attention to algorithmic correctness. Collected experience in image-analysis optimizations, FDA/HIPAA testing, and device-level work gives him a rare mix of low-level performance tuning and scalable production engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Santa Barbara City CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at California State University Channel Islands
Github Skills (8)
bash10
docker10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
dockers10
mysql9
lua8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
project-topaz/topaz
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Server emulator for FFXI
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Nassir primarily focused on implementing a Docker-based server launch for the FFXI emulator. Their contributions involved integrating a third-party script and configuring the server to interact with a database. They also updated hit rate calculations to match known game equations, ensuring accuracy within the game's combat system. They also updated code.
emulatorffxiserver-emulator
NassirAlawar/genform
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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