Who is Ijtihed Kilani?
Ijtihed Kilani is a software and systems engineer based in Helsinki, Finland. He works on embedded software and firmware at Oura, 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 quantitative finance, robotics, embedded systems, health technology and artificial intelligence.
Current work
- Software Engineer Intern at Oura, working on embedded software, firmware evaluation and AI tooling.
- Teaching Assistant at Aalto University’s Department of Computer Science.
- Co-founder of Null Fellows and Schema, an MCP-native architecture graph for codebases.
Engineering evidence
- Merged changes into 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 built simulation and playtesting tooling for Supercell AI Lab 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 interests span theoretical computer science, applied physics, machine learning, numerical methods and complex systems.
He is second author of Comparative Study of Complete Blood Count Between High-Altitude and Sea-Level Residents in West Saudi Arabia, published in Cureus.
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.