Ijtihed Kilani

Software engineer in Helsinki, Finland. Firmware and AI tooling at Oura. Aalto University, BSc Computational Engineering into an MSc in Mathematics.

Now

• Software Engineer Intern, Oura, 2026 to present
• Teaching Assistant, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, 2025 to present
• Co-founder, Null Fellows, 2025 to present
• Co-founder, Schema, an MCP-native architecture graph over a codebase

Before

• Software Engineer, contract, Supercell AI Lab, 2026
• Founding Engineer, Kova Labs, 2025 to 2026
• Software Engineer, Sensofusion, 2025
• Research Assistant, King Abdulaziz University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2022 to 2024

Open source

Merged pull requests into NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, Node.js, OpenCV, Godot, ArduPilot, Docker Compose and IPython, mostly numerical correctness and performance.

Projects

ps2-forge, a small C engine for real PlayStation 2 games. sandengine, a GPU falling-sand simulator in Rust and WGSL. triple_pendulum.asm, a chaotic triple pendulum in x86-64 assembly. driftmd, which checks README claims in CI. oChess.

Research

Second author, Cureus 15(9): e44889, complete blood count at altitude versus sea level in West Saudi Arabia.

GitHub, LinkedIn, plain-text summary.