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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modSTORAGE/New York University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering · Mathematics minor
Aug 2024 – May 2028
Coursework in computer architecture, algorithms, linear algebra, probability and statistics, and circuits gives the production work a stronger systems and mathematical foundation.

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
Dashboard / Highlights
currently based in
New York
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Portfolio Site
past reads
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
- The C Programming Language
recent commits
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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.









