Hey! I'm Ismaeel
I'm a Computer Engineering student at New York University and a software engineer. Most of my shipped work sits in backend platforms, financial and data workflows, cloud infrastructure, and commerce.
Outside work, I build closer to the machine: Linux drivers, C and C++, profiling, and the hardware/software boundary. That production experience is the foundation for where I'm heading next: performance-sensitive, low-level, and quantitative systems.
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New York University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering · Mathematics minor
Aug 2024 – May 2028
Coursework: Computer architecture, algorithms, linear algebra, probability and statistics, and circuits.
Activities: Jane Street Mystery Planet 2026 Winner, IBM Hackathon 2025 Winner, Tech@NYU Dev Team Software Engineer
iCloud Linux
A local-first Linux filesystem/sync project for mounting iCloud Drive with persistent caching, background hydration, bidirectional sync, and service-oriented UX.
Tags: systems, linux, filesystem, sync
Sentinel
A HackNYU team project combining a Chrome extension, React interface, cached AWS Lambda API, and model-assisted privacy-policy summaries.
Tags: privacy, serverless, extension, ai-tools
marketplace systems
SOROS
A marketplace that grew from an early Next.js storefront into Go and AWS systems for checkout, fulfillment, integrations, and operator-facing work.
Tags: marketplace, payments, platform engineering
client commerce
A Unified Whole
Built custom commerce and product sites by translating brand direction into maintainable Shopify, Liquid, React, media, and mobile interaction systems.
Tags: commerce, client-work, frontend
A Unified Whole
ParaNano
Built a Next.js product platform that explained WoundCue, ParaNano’s wound-care nanofiber concept, for investor demos, company updates, and customer conversations.
Tags: wound care, product communication, nextjs
A Unified Whole
Spicy Dan
Built a custom Shopify jewelry storefront where Liquid product data, a Three.js configurator, bundle cart behavior, and mobile media flows worked as one product system.
Tags: commerce, shopify, configurator
A Unified Whole
Who Decides War
Built a custom media-heavy Shopify storefront across navigation, collections, products, search, cart, HLS video, and responsive editorial commerce.
Tags: commerce, shopify, fashion
Dashboard / Highlights
currently based in
New York
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Facily @ ModStorage
past reads
- What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
- The C Programming Language
recent commits
reading git log…
Looking for engineering work where the details matter
I'm interested in internships and engineering roles involving performance, reliability, and correctness. If that is what you're building, I'd like to hear about it.