Youness Kafia
Expert Developer at Coface
France
Summary
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Top SchoolYouness Kafia is an expert developer and data engineer with 8 years of experience blending big-data engineering, backend systems, and a passion for craft-driven software. Based in France, he has delivered data-focused solutions as a consultant at Lincoln France and now brings technical leadership to Coface, building reliable systems informed by a Master’s in Data Science from ESILV. He also contributes to open-source game engine development—extending the Stride C# engine with time-warp physics and math-library integrations—showing a knack for low-level systems thinking beyond typical data roles. Equally at home solving problems on remote servers as he is treating code like art, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for elegant, maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Data Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Data Science at ESILV - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci
French, English
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Github Skills (17)
game-engine10
stride10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
vulkan9
direct3d9
physics9
game-development9
game-dev8
multiplatform8
blazor6
deedle6
generics6
office-ui-fabric6
generated-code6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stride3d/stride
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Youness primarily focused on extending the Stride game engine's core functionality by implementing time warp features. Their contributions involved modifying the engine's animation, physics, and particle systems to incorporate time dilation, ensuring consistent behavior under varying time scales. They also added a linear velocity feature for character components. Furthermore, the user implemented conversions between Stride's and System.Numerics' math libraries, expanding the engine's capabilities.
gamedevvulkanxenkogame-developmentmulti-platform
ykafia/SoftTouch3D
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
A game engine prototype
Contributions:146 commits, 2 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 4 months
gamedevgraphicsprototypewip
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