Seif Lotfy

Current

• GSoC Mentor at Google

Past

• Voluntary Assistant at TU Darmstadt
• Software Developer at Fraunhofer SIT
• Software Developer at Fraunhofer IPSI

• Software Developer at Fraunhofer IGD
• Teaching Assisitant at TU Darmstadt
• Intern at KfW

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Education

• Technische Universität Darmstadt

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Seif Lotfy’s Summary

Seif Lotfy’s Specialties:

Rapid prototyping, UI design, Human Computer Interaction

Seif Lotfy’s Experience

• GSoC Mentor

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (8 months)

  I am mentoring Siegfried Gevatter for his GNOME Shell: Zeitgeist integration.

• Voluntary Assistant

  TU Darmstadt

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 1 month)

  Modifying the GUI responsible for creating motions.
  Added new features to the GUI.
  Created and optimized motions and behavior issues.
  Participated at the Robocup.

• Software Developer

  Fraunhofer SIT

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  February 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Improved the GUI of the activity search client.
  Added new filter mechanisms.
  Added usability features such as drag/drop and copy paste of search results from server to desktop.
  Created a file format to save current searches and filters.
  Preview images from server within the client.

• Software Developer

  Fraunhofer IPSI

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  November 2006 — January 2007 (3 months)

  Improved the GUI of the activity search client.
  Added new features e.g: searching multiple people and computer activities.

• Software Developer

  Fraunhofer IGD

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  July 2006 — October 2006 (4 months)

  Creating a GUI for Server Farms Configurations

• Teaching Assisitant

  TU Darmstadt

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

  Mentored and thought a group of 15 students.
  Introduced them to programing in C.
  Corrected homeworks and lab assignments.

• Intern

  KfW

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  July 2005 — October 2005 (4 months)

  Created a watchdog in C/C++ that analyses the server traffic and credit transfer for possible delays and deadlocks.
  Watchdog has been used there ever since.

Seif Lotfy’s Education

• Technische Universität Darmstadt

  BSc , Computational Engineering, Applied Mechanics , 2003 — 2008

  Worked on a Communication Network project in a 3 man team, developing a server/client synchronization software for e-learning

  Activities and Societies:

  Computational Engineering student representative since Juli 2007
  Active Darmstadt Dribbling Dackels and GermanTeam member since October 2005, participating at RoboCup tournaments.

Additional Information

Seif Lotfy’s Interests:

Open Source Development. Algorithms

Seif Lotfy’s Groups:

GermanTeam, DarmstadtDribblingDackels, Gnome Foundation

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Seif Lotfy’s Honors:

3rd place with Darmstadt Dribbling Dackels at Roboluden 2006
4th place with GermanTeam at Robocup 2006
1st place with GermanTeam at GermanOpen 2007
reached quarter finals with GermanTeam at Robocup 2007
1st place at technical challenges with GermanTeam at Robocup 2007

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