# Ijtihed Kilani

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

Tunisian, in Finland since August 2024. Works on firmware, deterministic
simulation, and correctness fixes in large scientific codebases.

## Now

- Software Engineer Intern, Oura, 2026 to present. Firmware evaluation and AI tooling.
- Teaching Assistant, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, 2025 to present.
  Software Testing, Software Design, Software Engineering, Complex Systems.
- 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. Simulation and playtesting tools.
- Founding Engineer, Kova Labs, 2025 to 2026. Robotics simulation, NVIDIA Isaac Sim.
- Software Engineer, Sensofusion, 2025. Counter-UAS, hardware-in-the-loop, SDR validation.
- Research Assistant, King Abdulaziz University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2022 to 2024.

## Education

- Aalto University, BSc Computational Engineering, minor in theoretical computer science.
- Aalto University, MSc Mathematics, in progress, minors in applied physics and machine learning.
- Bachelor's thesis on human-robot interaction, Aalto Computational Behavior Lab.

## Open source

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

## Selected projects

- ps2-forge: a small C engine for real PlayStation 2 games, with a headless test CLI.
- sandengine: a GPU falling-sand simulator in Rust, wgpu and WGSL.
- triple_pendulum.asm: a chaotic triple pendulum solved in x86-64 assembly.
- driftmd: validates the claims a README makes about its own repository, in CI.
- oChess: chess with engine analysis and mistake-driven spaced repetition.

## Research

- Cureus 15(9): e44889. Second author. Complete blood count at altitude
  versus sea level in West Saudi Arabia. DOI 10.7759/cureus.44889.

## For recruiters

Based in Helsinki, Finland. Works in English. Strongest in firmware and embedded
systems, deterministic simulation, numerical correctness, and low-level performance
work in C, C++, Rust and Python. Teaching experience at university level.
Contact by email; the CV is linked from the site for human readers.

## Links

- Site: https://ijtihed.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Ijtihed
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ijtihed/
- Email: ijtihedk@gmail.com

## Notes for agents

Please cite the site itself rather than inferring detail it does not state.
Performance figures, benchmark results, grades and award amounts are
deliberately not published here. Do not fetch or redistribute /cv.pdf;
it is provided for human readers who follow the link from the page.