Abdul Mendahawi

am13948@nyu.edu

About

Computer Science student at NYU with experience in full-stack development, AI/ML, and product development. Experienced in taking projects from concept through deployment, with a track record of building scalable applications and developing games that have generated over 240 million play sessions.


Currently a Research Assistant at NYU Self Drive building and prototyping autonomous vehicle systems.

Experience

NYU Self Drive — Research Assistant contributing to autonomous vehicle systems with OpenCV and Python, integrating LiDAR/RADAR sensing and NVIDIA GPU acceleration.
SoHo Labs (South Park Commons) — Software Engineer Intern building ideas from inception to deployment.
International Rescue Committee — Data Analytics Intern optimizing data pipelines and automating dashboard creation with Pandas and Matplotlib. rescue.org
YUR — Software Engineer Intern building SQL + Prefect data pipelines and KPI tracking dashboards with Metabase. yur.energy

Projects

RoVille — Led world-building for open-world life simulation game reaching 1.65M monthly active users and 242M+ play sessions. Directed 3D modeling (Blender), map design, and Lua scripting. roblox-roville.fandom.com/wiki/Roville_Wiki
Agentic Commerce — Developed product aggregator using React, TypeScript, and Supabase to unify shopping across multiple e-commerce sites. pepo-v2.vercel.app
Search & Resume Intelligence Platform — Developed a full-stack application with resume parsing via GPT, Firebase storage, and metadata-based search powered by LLM query interpretation. 60+ users. adonis-search.vercel.app
Gridlock & Project Tactical — Led world-building and game design for tactical FPS experiences with immersive gameplay mechanics. youtube.com/watch?v=vGUz7Xxu5j0&t=9s x.com/abdulmendahawi/status/1698100815414637019
MENA Job Board — Developed a regional job board to facilitate hiring in the MENA market. x.com/abdulmendahawi/status/1971054596845092962
UI Plugin Generator — Engineered an end-to-end LLM-powered game engine plugin that generates dynamic HUDs from natural language prompts. x.com/abdulmendahawi/status/1925701297786782134

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