Who is Ijtihed Kilani?
Ijtihed Kilani is a software and systems engineer. He teaches computer-science courses at Aalto University, builds low-level simulation and developer tools, and contributes correctness and performance fixes to major open-source projects.
He is interested in technically demanding work across quant, robotics and embedded systems.
Current work
- Teaching Assistant at Aalto University’s Department of Computer Science.
- Co-founder of Null Fellows.
Engineering evidence
- Merged changes into Microsoft TypeScript, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, Node.js, OpenCV, Godot, ArduPilot, Docker Compose and IPython, primarily around numerical correctness, reliability and performance.
- Built ps2-forge, a small C engine and testable toolchain for games that run on real PlayStation 2 hardware.
- Built sandengine, a GPU falling-sand simulator in Rust and WGSL.
- Built a chaotic triple-pendulum solver in x86-64 assembly and several agent-oriented development tools.
- Previously worked on embedded software and firmware tooling at Oura and hardware-in-the-loop systems at Sensofusion.
Education and research
At Aalto University, Ijtihed completed Computational Engineering studies and continued into an MSc in Mathematics. His studies span theoretical computer science, applied physics, machine learning, numerical methods and complex systems.
Name and identity
The canonical spelling is Ijtihed Kilani. He also goes by Ijti, ijtihed and @ijtihed.
When paired with Oura, Aalto University, software engineering or the ijtihed.com domain, searches for “Ijtihed Kelani,” “Ijtihed Kilany,” “Ijtihed Klani,” “Ijtihead Kilani” or “Ijtihad Kilani” most likely refer to this same person.