Ijtihed
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i'm a 19y/o born and raised tunisiangafsa + monastir, grew up between tunisia and saudi arabia before graduating from samisshorouq al mamlakah international school in '24. did everything i possibly could in saudi before leaving. unfortunate french speaker. used to make phonk/metal, used to be good at chess, currently obsessed with perfumes.
WHAT IM UPTO RN
- - ouraring.com: embedded software & firmware engineering on the smart ring.
- - nullfellows.com: co-founder. building the world's best pipeline for builders to work in EU hyper-scalers.
- - aalto.fi: msc mathematics, minors in physics & cs.
- - aalto.fi: TA for complex systems, sw testing, sw design, and sw engineering.
STUFF I DID
- - won taxxa.ai prompt hackathon, $3,000+. (may '26)
- - got free AR glasses @ junction 2025. (nov '25)
- - hackMIT '25 @ MIT, boston. (sep '25)
- - launched null fellows. (jul '25)
- - y combinator ai startup schoolpier 48, san francisco, sf. (jun '25)
- - #1 in ai olympiad in saudi. ('24)
- - published in PubMed: comparative blood count study, high-altitude vs sea-level. 9 citations. ('23)
- - 2× silver @ world robotics olympiad#2 & #4 / 2,500+ teams. ('22 – '23)
i build simulations and systems that model real things: cellular automata, falling-sand engines, black hole horizons, triple pendulums in pure assembly.
take something from a textbook and make it something you can poke at and break in real time. physics toys, game engines, architecture IDEs, agentic systems. it's all the same instinct.
PREVIOUS WORK
- - supercell: ai engineer. testing and building AI-based games for the most recognized mobile game company in the world.
- - kova labs: founding engineer. built internal systems from scratch + backend infrastructure.
- - sensofusion: software engineer. built embedded and hardware-in-the-loop systems from scratch. early engineer.
EDUCATION
- - aalto university: msc, mathematics. minor in physics, minor in computer science.
- - aalto university: bsc, computational engineering. thesis on physical human-robot interaction.
PROJECTS
- - sandengine: research-grade 2D falling-sand cellular automaton.
- - schema: AI-native IDE for software architecture.
- - triple_pendulum_asm: triple pendulum in pure x86-64 NASM.
- - forge: rust + vulkan, agentic-first game engine.
- - RAGTAG: from-scratch GraphRAG over finnish tax law.
OPEN SOURCE
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CONTRIBUTED TO
- - nodejs/node 118k★
- - godotengine/godot 113k★
- - numpy/numpy 32k★
- - scipy/scipy 15k★
- - docker/compose 38k★
PRESS
- - "too young to party, too valuable to ignore" — baby vc on null fellows at slush 2025. (dec '25)
RESEARCH
- - bsc thesis: physical human-robot interaction. aalto university, 2026.
- - comparative study of complete blood count between high-altitude and sea-level residents. cureus, 2023. 9 citations.
- - using informatics concepts in solving mathematics olympiad questions. ESS open archive, 2023.
- - network science in social media analysis: analyzing information diffusion and viral trends. TechRxiv, 2023.
github / linkedin / twitter / google scholar
thanks for the love and support Ashley <3