Sylvie Oukaour
Software Engineer at Formative (goformative.com)
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvie Oukaour is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable back-end systems, data pipelines, and web applications, currently contributing at Formative in Jersey City. She has strong expertise in Java, Spring, Spark, Python, and Typescript, and has built regulatory reporting and automated trading systems that handle high-volume, low-latency workloads. Her academic background and research work at Stony Brook produced performance-optimized C++/OpenGL visualization tools capable of interactively rendering multi-gigabyte neural models. An active open-source maintainer in the retro-gaming community, she contributes to high-profile disassemblies like pret/pokeyellow, pokered, and pokegold and helps advance the RGBDS assembler and Polished Crystal ROM hacks. Practical and detail-oriented, she blends systems-level optimization with tooling and automation—evident from setting up CI, generating assembly tools, and designing compact file formats to speed I/O. Beyond production software she pursues creative reverse-engineering projects, showing a rare mix of low-level assembly skill and large-scale data engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer science English, High School Diploma Computer science English at Stuyvesant High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (10)
assembly10
gameboy10
reverse-engineering10
assemble10
assembler10
disassembly10
code-cleanup9
gameboy-advance9
z809
python8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pret/pokered
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Reverse Engineer
Back-end Developer & Reverse EngineerContributions:279 reviews, 302 commits, 161 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sylvie's contributions focus on the disassembly and reverse engineering of the Pokémon Red/Blue game code. Their work involves documenting the base stats of a specific Pokémon ("MissingNo.") and modifying code to avoid compiler warnings. They implemented a local tool and refactored the repository's map data and assets. The user demonstrated technical skills in assembly language, reverse engineering, and code maintenance within the context of the project.
disassemblygameboyreverse-engineeringgbz80
pret/pokegold
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Disassembly of Pokémon Gold/Silver
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 342 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sylvie contributed to the disassembly of Pokémon Gold/Silver. Their commits include synchronizing tools with pokecrystal, modifying palette files, generating assembly code, and deriving Pokémon frontpic dimensions. The user also set up Travis CI and made improvements to the codebase to match established practices within the project.
disassemblygameboy-colorreverse-engineeringgbz80
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