Omar Emara
Trainee at IMT School
Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Emara is an embedded software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience focused on automotive application software and embedded system configuration. Currently a trainee at IMT School, he pairs practical industry work with deep open-source contributions, notably to Blender’s Animation Nodes and Halide’s OpenGLCompute backend. His Blender work added new nodes and mesh-generation features, demonstrating a strong grasp of the Blender API and visual scripting for motion graphics. In Halide he improved vectorization and code generation for OpenGLCompute, showing a knack for performance-oriented backend development. Formerly an entrepreneur running Stay Traveller and trained in electrical engineering from Alexandria University, he brings a rare mix of systems-level engineering, graphics tooling, and product-minded problem solving. Colleagues describe him as continually learning and comfortable bridging low-level optimization with creative open-source projects.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Alexandria University
Github Skills (19)
geometry10
addin10
python10
halide10
compiler-compiler10
compiler10
nodes10
addon10
geom10
mesh9
vectorization9
cprogramming-language8
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JacquesLucke/animation_nodes
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 261 reviews, 456 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on adding functionality to the Animation Nodes Blender addon, developing new nodes for specific features. They implemented and integrated the "Armature Info" node, allowing users to access bone data. Furthermore, the user contributed to the mesh generation system by creating and integrating the "Unity Triangle Mesh" node and fixed issues with several different node types. The user’s work demonstrates a strong understanding of the Blender API and the addon's core functionality.
motion-graphicsscriptingpythonblenderanimation
halide/Halide
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on enhancing the OpenGLCompute backend within the Halide project. They implemented vectorization support for loads, stores, and the Select operator, improving performance. The user also fixed a type error in the Ramp CodeGen for OpenGLCompute and addressed issues with the default device wrap native function to correct errors. These changes demonstrate a focus on optimizing and extending the capabilities of the OpenGLCompute backend.
computationhexagonhalideparallelgpu
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