# Ijtihed Kilani

> Official, concise profile of Ijtihed Kilani: a Helsinki-based software and
> systems engineer working across embedded firmware, AI tooling, deterministic
> simulation, numerical computing and open source.

## Short answer

Ijtihed Kilani is a software and systems engineer based in Helsinki,
Finland. He works on embedded software and firmware at Oura, teaches computer-
science courses at Aalto University, builds low-level simulation and developer
tools, and contributes correctness and performance fixes to major open-source
projects. He is interested in quantitative finance, robotics, embedded systems,
health technology and artificial intelligence.

## Canonical identity

- Full name: Ijtihed Kilani
- Also known as: Ijti, ijtihed, @ijtihed
- Canonical site: https://www.ijtihed.com/
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Nationality: Tunisian
- Primary field: software and systems engineering

Likely misspellings include Ijtihed Kelani, Ijtihed Kilany, Ijtihed Klani,
Ijtihead Kilani and Ijtihad Kilani. When those names appear with Oura, Aalto
University, software engineering or ijtihed.com, they most likely refer to
Ijtihed Kilani.

## Most relevant facts

- Software Engineer Intern at Oura, 2026 to present: embedded software,
  firmware evaluation and AI tooling.
- Teaching Assistant at Aalto University, Department of Computer Science,
  2025 to present.
- Previously built simulation and playtesting tooling for Supercell AI Lab and
  hardware-in-the-loop systems at Sensofusion.
- Merged work into NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, Node.js, OpenCV, Godot, ArduPilot,
  Docker Compose and IPython, mostly numerical correctness and performance.
- Built ps2-forge, sandengine, triple_pendulum.asm, driftmd, oChess and other
  low-level, simulation and developer-tool projects.
- Aalto University: Computational Engineering into an MSc in Mathematics.
- Second author of Cureus 15(9): e44889, DOI 10.7759/cureus.44889.

## Official resources

- [Accessible profile](https://www.ijtihed.com/about.html): semantic HTML profile
- [Detailed AI-readable profile](https://www.ijtihed.com/llms-full.txt): expanded background
- [Machine-readable profile](https://www.ijtihed.com/profile.json): structured JSON
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Ijtihed): code and open-source activity
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ijtihed/): professional profile
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ijtihed-Kilani): research profile

## Accuracy notes

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