Abdul Mendahawi

am13948@nyu.edu

About

Computer Science student at NYU with a background in developing agentic workflows, full-stack development, AI/ML and data science. Experienced in architecting end-to-end ELT pipelines and taking products from concept to deployment. Proven track record of building scalable applications and developing games that have generated over 242 million play sessions.


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

Experience

NYU Self Drive — Contributing to the research, design, and prototyping of autonomous vehicle systems using Visual SLAM for spatial navigation with PyTorch and OpenCV-based vision pipelines, all managed via ROS for control.
SoHo Labs (founded by a SPC member) — Software Engineer Intern. Owned end-to-end product cycles: developed web applications, fine-tuned models and built game engine plugins.
International Rescue Committee — Data Management Intern. Developed data pipelines to transform data into insights utilizing Pandas and Matplotlib. rescue.org
YUR — Software Engineer Intern contributing to data pipelines and KPI tracking using Segment, Prefect, BigQuery and dbt. yur.energy

Projects

RoVille — Led world-building efforts for RoVille, a game with over 1.65 million monthly active players and 242M+ global play sessions. Contributed to 3D asset modeling (Blender) and led map and environment design. 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 archive, collect and facilitate hiring in the MENA market. yabnee.dev
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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