Sylvie Oukaour
Software Engineer at Formative (goformative.com)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSylvie Oukaour is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems across finance, research, and education, now based in New York. She has delivered cloud-based regulatory reporting and low-latency trading infrastructure using Java, Spring, Spark, Python, MongoDB, and TypeScript, and currently builds product at Formative. Her research background includes C++/OpenGL visualization of massive neural-network models and storage-format optimizations that enabled interactive work on 64GB datasets. A pragmatic full-stack developer, she has also implemented recommender systems, ETL pipelines, and production-grade graph algorithms published as open source. Beyond production work, she contributes to community projects—improving readability and maintainability in the notable pokecrystal disassembly—and combines strong academic training (MS, BS Stony Brook) with hands-on systems optimization.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.74, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.74 at State University of New York at Stony BrookHigh School Diploma, Computer science, English, High School Diploma, Computer science, English at Stuyvesant High SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.73, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.73 at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
assembly10
game-development10
c1110
code-documentation10
code-readability10
raytracing6
z806
user-interface6
macos6
linux6
fltk6
fresnel6
phong6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pret/pokecrystal
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Disassembly of Pokémon Crystal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:419 commits, 19 PRs, 129 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sylvie primarily focused on documenting constants and updating the codebase to use these new definitions. This involved making changes to various files, particularly within the `trainers` directory, to enhance code readability and maintainability. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the codebase and a commitment to improving its structure through this consistent documentation effort. The work also touched on mobile code and minor code changes, suggesting contributions in other areas.
capstonemongameboy-colorgbz80crystal
roukaour/peg-solitaire
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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