Omar Ahmed
Software Engineer at SAS
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOmar Ahmed is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in compiler engineering and web development, currently based in Edinburgh. He has driven low-level compiler work—implementing LLVM passes, migrating to newer LLVM features, and mapping OpenCL constructs to SPIR-V—while also architecting runtime (UR) adapters across hardware backends at Codeplay. Omar blends systems-level expertise with practical web and CI improvements, having built MERN e-commerce sites, automated performance regression checks, and added CUDA/HIP benchmarking support for performance visibility. He has contributed to large open-source organizations and coordinated conformance testing and release efforts, demonstrating both technical depth and product-minded delivery. Notably, he has bridged compiler internals and AI framework needs by advancing async memory allocation and memory handling for SYCL graphs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Ain Shams University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (79)
parser10
lexer10
sycl10
clang10
opencl10
modular10
intel10
python-app10
compiler10
staging10
llvm10
spir10
oneapi10
yacc10
toolchain10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
omarahmed1111/unified-runtime
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:430 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 9 months
Ali-Mohamed0/ASUMobiCarG30
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 27 pushes in 4 months
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