Omar Mahfouz

Passionate about products, VR & tech.
Products manager and VR creator for multi projects in MENA companies.
Coach & Trainer in multi startups competitions.


Experience

Founder & CEO

  • Mahfouz Games is an independent game development studio founded in 2018 by Omar Mahfouz. Mahfouz games developed and self-published multiple games on next generation equipment (HTC vive, etc..). Outsource game development provider with an ability to deliver multi platform solutions likes PC/Mobile games and VR/AR solutions to companies, publishers and development studios.
Aug 2018 – Present

Director of Engineering

  • Responsible for the technical alignment of clients demands and products & services.
  • Pro-actively planning for the technical demands of any projects.
  • Supervise all employees in production and technical control departments, including assigning tasks, approving schedules, and ensuring compliance with timelines.
Mar 2020 – Present

Team Leader

  • Guiding and leading the work of technical and operations teams and organizing & delegating tasks.
  • Monitor testing and troubleshooting in the final stages of software development before going live.
  • Managing and training new employees and interns.
  • Provided feedback and tracked troubleshooting to management.
Aug 2019 – Mar 2020

Software Engineer

  • Worked on Lableb Instant Answers project which aims to Extracting information from the web to provide precise answers to users’ queries related to numerous verticals like topic abstracts, people, companies, books, recipes, and more.
Aug 2017 – Jul 2019

Game Developer

  • Worked on various freelance projects with rich technology variations and all aspects of game development from concept to designing to programming.
Jun 2017 – Jun 2018

Education

Damascus University

Bachelor of Computer Science
Specialized: Artificial intelligence

Activities and societies: Robotic Club.

2015 - 2020

Projects

Reflecto Ray

Reflecto Ray is a puzzle game that combines creativity and challenge with interactive gaming experience in VR. It challenges players to guide ray into the final destination by guessing the mirror's direction.

Weapons Master

Weapons Master is a fighting PC VR game
Fighters will be able to control and throw weapons to kill enemies with various weapons – from throwing swords, knives, and axes or even throwing your enemy's body with bare hands.

Zombie Killer

Explore a horror world by surviving from zombies by killing them using weapons. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU and how to handle your weapons. You can gain new weapons when you still survive and kill more zombies.

ArcherVR

VR Archery Game is a tower defense game that aims to defend gate castle by obstructing the enemy attackers. The only obstacle is that you have limited arrows to kill the enemies which are normal arrows or explosive arrows. The good point, you can gain more arrows when you kill more enemies!

A-star-3D-Pathfinding-in-Unity

This is an implementation of the a-star algorithm for three-dimensional world pathfinding Using Unity.
The A star algorithm is a pathfinding algorithm computing the shortest path between two nodes with Multi Thread and points grid type for speed Computing .
You can add obstacles by clicking by right mouse button and then the grid immediately updated it .

Evolution of Deep Neural Network Using Genetic ALgorithm For Self Car Driven

A 3d Unity simulation for self car driven by Evolution Deep Neural Network Using Genetic Algorithm to train the neural network weights

FlappyBird Using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Networks

In this project, we have implemented an AI for the Flappy Bird which makes the computer play the game much more efficiently as compared to what a normal human being can do.
We have achieved these goals using Genetic Algorithms with an underlying Neural Network Architecture.

E learning for kids

The project is about making the kids learn algorithms by correctly arranging the blocks in Virtual reality world to integrate the fun and learn at the same time.


Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Games development especially gameplay and design
  • VR/AR technologies
  • Lead development teams
  • Cross-Functional Teams
  • Agile Development

Awards & Certifications

  • 1 st Place - Wikilogia - Wikilogia Hackathon 2017 (Games applications path)
  • 2 st Place - American University of Beirut - Engineering Design Challenge 3.0 2018
  • 2 nd Place - WRO Syria - World Robot Olympiad 2017 in Syria