Mostafa Okasha
[email protected] · okasha.me
Software Engineer — AI, ML infrastructure & geospatial products
EXPERIENCE
Meta (Reality Labs)Nov 2024 — Feb 2026
Software Engineer · Toronto
- Designed & deployed a custom NGINX ingress layer to route secure gateway traffic into Kubernetes services
- Led the migration of a distributed ML platform, fully rebuilding compute, storage & networking infrastructure
- Contributed to real-time contextual AI experiences on XR devices by integrating perception & decision models
- Rewrote CPU-bound image preprocessing into GPU kernels — a 350x speedup with <1% output drift
- Migrated 30+ models to MIG GPU infra, resolving memory, scheduling & scaling issues
- Enabled CONNECT tunneling via forward proxy for cross-network ML traffic, improving throughput by 2×
- Built benchmarking & evaluation pipelines to measure & improve model latency, throughput & accuracy
MapSightApr 2024 — Present
Founder · Waterloo
- Built a geospatial analytics web app to find optimal distribution locations for auto-parts businesses by analyzing driving-time metrics (AWS, React, Python, Flask, DynamoDB)
- Designed an Industry Locations API to keep every location in an area obtained with up-to-date info
- Used cosine similarity, FuzzyWuzzy & agglomerative clustering with an LLM to categorize industry locations
- Currently adding new industries & automating the location search & categorization processes
Scale AIJan 2024 — Nov 2024
Software Engineer, AI Training (Outlier) · Remote
- Wrote 30+ novel DSA problems & solutions and reviewed 230+ submissions, giving feedback to authors (Python, Java, C++)
- Worked on 12 LLM RLHF projects across new-to-me stacks — C#/.NET, PHP/Laravel, Ruby/Rails, Kotlin/Android, Dart/Flutter
- Mentored & onboarded teammates across projects, building expertise in LLM coding evaluation
- Assisted the RLHF training of Google Gemini's external API capabilities for the trip-planning feature
Capital OneNov 2019 — Sep 2022
Senior Software Engineer · Toronto
- Analyzed 95 fraud & dispute case states with currency-conversion issues, designed full-scale solutions & got approval from 4 teams — reducing losses by $2M+/year
- Led the Foreign Transaction Fee Enhancement project to cut operational losses by over $1.5M/year
- Applied for the SR&ED tax incentive worth $300K+ for the currency-conversion work
- Developed scalable ECS clusters on AWS integrated with CI/CD; led the ownership transfer of the team's container with docs & KT sessions
- Collaborated on features & REST APIs across 10+ Java Spring Boot microservices
- Helped migrate the Customer Management Application to a micro-frontend/services architecture
- 3 internal hackathons — 1st overall in one, awards in the others
EricssonJan — Aug 2018
Software Developer Intern · 5G RAN
- Developed 5G radio features in C++ on live carrier networks — helped increase LTE throughput by 400%
- Built an interactive Bash tool that cut connection-log debugging time by 50%, and Python RDP automation that tripled test capacity
McMaster UniversityAug — Dec 2017
Instructional Assistant Intern
- Led 330+ first-year students designing a product for a client with disabilities; highest IA rating that year (4.6/5)
PROJECTS
- Beneficent Relief — donation money-tracking transparency system Jun 2024
- Flappy Bird replica — built in Godot & GDScript, shipped on Android Feb 2023
- ChessMate — led a team of 6: a SCARA robot that plays chess (ML, OpenCV, AWS) Apr 2019
- EyeSee — assistive-vision headset, 1st place @ HackPrinceton Apr 2017
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
McMaster University — B.Eng, Mechatronics & Co-op (software focus)June 2019
Algorithms and Data StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsNetworks and SecurityOperating SystemsSoftware OptimizationScientific ComputationControl TheoryEmbedded SystemsReal-Time SystemsRoboticsSignal Processing
AWS Solutions Architect — AssociateDec 2023
SKILLS
Languages: Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust
Frameworks: PyTorch, React, OpenCV, Flask, Django, TensorFlow, Spring Boot, Next.js, Vue.js, jQuery
Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, CUDA, Triton, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Frameworks: PyTorch, React, OpenCV, Flask, Django, TensorFlow, Spring Boot, Next.js, Vue.js, jQuery
Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, CUDA, Triton, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL
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