About Me
Hi, I’m Mohamed Zaid, a software developer who enjoys building thoughtful systems and clean user experiences. Outside of coding, I love hiking, travelling, playing video games, and creating graphical simulations.
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I’m currently pursuing an Honours BSc in Computer Science at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, after graduating from Humber Polytechnic’s Game Programming program. I have been building in C++ for about 6 years, and I focus on software systems design: clean architecture, clear ownership of responsibilities, strong invariants, and performance-minded implementation.
Across internships and projects, I have designed and shipped systems where structure matters as much as features. At Autodesk, I developed a Vulkan-based renderer to help bring MaterialX native Vulkan backend support, using C++ with RAII and building extensible wrappers around low-level Vulkan interfaces. In Trading Master Pro, I used C++17 and Qt Widgets to separate the simulation and execution engine from UI state updates, making order validation, portfolio tracking, and live-like pricing easier to maintain and extend. I have also built graphics and concurrency projects using Vulkan, OpenGL, GLSL, and SDL, where profiling, debugging, and careful data design were critical for correctness and smooth performance. I enjoy collaborating in Agile workflows with code reviews and iterative delivery, and I value building systems that stay readable and extensible as requirements evolve.
This summer, I will be joining Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern. I am excited to apply these design principles in a large production codebase, building reliable C++ systems, graphics and tooling workflows, and user-facing applications with Qt.
Projects
Trading App
Desktop trading simulator built in C++/Qt. Includes seeded mock market data, a watchlist, order ticket, trade history, and portfolio/mark-to-market P&L tracking.
Rendering Normals in Vulkan
Vulkan demo focused on visualizing normals for debugging and learning: pipeline setup, vertex input, per-frame updates, and shader logic using descriptors + push constants.
C++ Concurrency
Created a 2D scene in OpenGL and Implemented multi-threading by creating three separate threads to load assets in a graphical scene for optimization. Implemented a memory monitor to manage memory allocation and deallocation.
Trackball
Loaded a skull object with two child objects(eyes). Created movement within the scene using SDL Events. Used X/Y coordinates to implement movement using the left mouse button.
Refraction Shader
Loaded six textures to create a skybox using C++ in OpenGL. Implemented Refraction shader and displayed it by creating a sphere. Implemented my trackball system that allows movement within the scene.
Reflection Shader
Loaded six textures to create a skybox using C++ in OpenGL. Implemented Reflection shader and displayed it by creating a sphere. Implemented my trackball system that allows movement within the scene.
Angry Bird Simulation
As part of my physics project, implemented a body class that simulated physical forces such as gravity, drag force, and wind force using objects initial velocity, position and acceleration.
Perlin Noise
Loaded Created a 3D noise texture. Implemented a noise shader that allows the display of perlin noise on the loaded sphere object.
Phong Shading Model
Loaded an Coronavirus object in a 2D scene using C++ in OpenGL. Implemented Phong model shader for a two light system.