Omar Akkila
Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Akkila is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in 3D graphics drivers for DirectX and Vulkan, currently contributing at AMD from Toronto. His career blends deep systems and graphics expertise with a strong FOSS pedigree—having worked on Linux multimedia and graphics stacks at Collabora and contributed to projects like GStreamer and Mesa. He is drawn to programming languages, parallelism, concurrency, and pragmatic systems design, prioritizing speed and simplicity without sacrificing reliability. An enthusiastic knowledge-sharer and mentor, he actively teaches technical concepts to peers and bridges platform-level engineering with real-world multimedia and AR/VR needs.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at McGill University
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (45)
servo10
browser10
rust10
javascript9
webbrowser9
docker-compose9
continuous-integration9
django9
gecko9
webengine9
ffi9
django-rest-framework9
mozilla9
git-mirror9
mercurial9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
omakk/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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