About

Hi, I’m Zakariya Oulhadj 👋🏼

An aspiring software engineer passionate about low-level programming and high-performance design. I specialise in C and C++, with over six years of experience across these and Python. My main interests include computer graphics, rendering engine architecture, and systems programming, where I focus on building efficient software from first principles.

Recently graduated with a distinction in High-Performance Computing (M.Sc.) from the University of Edinburgh and currently based in London, UK. For further details you can view my CV.

Full time Linux user running Debian 13 (Trixie) with my main editor of choice for programming being Emacs. My dotfiles are available on GitHub here.

I am currently developing my own real-time cross-platform rendering engine in C aiming to support multiple rendering APIs through a custom render command system.

Skills

• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, macOS
• Programming Languages: C11, C++23, Zig, Python
• APIs: Win32, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, MPI, OpenMP
• Tools: GDB, RenderDoc, Intel VTune, CrayPat, Scalasca, Linaro Forge
• Interests: Rendering Engine Architecture, Performance Benchmarking and Optimisation, Network Attached Storages (Synology)

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