Youssef Soliman
Software Engineer at Neuralink
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussef Soliman is a software engineer based in Austin with seven years of experience at the intersection of security and systems-focused engineering. He has interned and shipped work at Apple and Stripe, researched security at HackerOne, and now contributes to Neuralink’s software efforts, bringing production-hardened instincts from privacy and infrastructure teams. Youssef is an active open-source contributor to projects like WPEWebKit, where he refactored media internals (extracting TrackBuffer to improve reuse and memory handling), showing attention to maintainable low-level code. A University of Toronto CS graduate, he blends security research rigor with practical backend and media systems engineering—often surfacing subtle correctness and resource-management fixes that prevent future failures.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of TorontoHigh School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Webber Academy
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
webkit10
avfoundation9
webm9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
WPE WebKit port (downstream)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Youssef primarily worked on the internal structure of the webkit, specifically, refactoring and isolating the TrackBuffer class from SourceBufferPrivate. They improved the code by extracting TrackBuffer as a separate class for reusability in future media players. The user also modified code to handle non-zero start times and address potential memory management issues.
webkitwpe
youssefsoli/BetterMaplewood
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
BetterMaplewood, a chrome extension to make your maplewood experience better
Contributions:2 releases, 30 reviews, 160 commits in 3 years 5 months
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