Roy Mouawad
About
Engineering from device to interface and everything between.
I'm a software developer who moves comfortably across the whole stack: writing C++17 for real-time industrial hardware, architecting multi-process IPC systems on Linux, shipping data-analytics and reporting engines, and building AI platforms with local LLMs and retrieval pipelines.
I work remotely from Lebanon with a Canadian hardware team. Along the way I've co-founded two startups, won an ideathon, earned NASA recognition, and picked up a Microsoft certification at 14. I care about privacy-first tooling, offline AI, and software that holds up under real-world pressure.
5+
Years writing code
2
Startups co-founded
10+
Projects shipped
3
Languages spoken
Experience
A timeline of shipping real software.
From university labs in Lebanon to industrial security hardware in Montréal, every step shipped something people actually use.
2025 – Now
2025 – Now
Software Developer
VITA Detection Inc. · Montréal, QC · Remote from Lebanon
Real-time embedded desktop application for industrial security scanning hardware: C++ GUI applications (Dear ImGui) communicating with Python daemons over Unix domain sockets through a custom IPC/RPC layer, with SQLite persistence.
- Designed and shipped a cross-process session-enforcement system with state-machine logic, background threads, countdown UI popups, and a configurable admin settings interface, coordinated across multiple repositories simultaneously.
- Built a data-analytics and multi-format export module from scratch: structured CSV, Excel (XML Spreadsheet), and paginated PDF reports with statistical aggregation, rate calculations, and per-operator performance metrics.
- Refactored a large monolithic UI class into a modular, component-based architecture across multiple window classes, responding to two rounds of formal peer code review.
- Redesigned a service-management UI for dynamic, scalable content: wrapping grid layout, semantic color-coded status indicators, and pixel-perfect rendering via low-level draw-list calls.
- Managed feature branches across a multi-repo GitLab workspace, resolved concurrent teammate conflicts through rebase workflows, and debugged shared-library version drift in a CMake build environment.
2024 – 2025
2024 – 2025
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
Lyaison · Lebanon
The AI librarian for company documents, turning file chaos into instant, secure answers.
- Engineered AI auto-classification, semantic search, and a chat-with-citations interface over company document libraries.
- Built permission-aware retrieval: role-based and per-user access so the AI never surfaces content a user isn't authorized to see.
- Drove the product from concept to pitch: market analysis, SaaS pricing model, and a go-to-market strategy from Lebanon to MENA and the EU.
Lead Coder
Patented Startup (Overseas)
Lead developer on a launched, patented startup product, taking it from prototype to a live overseas launch. Won the ACIE Ideathon (prelims and finals, funding eligible) in the same period.
2021 – 2024
2021 – 2024
BSc Computer Science
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) · Kaslik, Lebanon
- Earned NASA's Galactic Problem Solver recognition at Space Apps Challenge 2024 with Cosmic Vision, a Three.js solar-system simulation on real astronomical data.
- Built offline AI assistants, chat interfaces with TTS and real-time generation, and an AI-driven virtual-pet desktop app in PyQt5.
- Practiced offensive and defensive security: HackTheBox CTFs, reverse engineering with x64dbg and IDA, and hardening web apps against XSS and SQL injection.
- Automated network security assessments with Nmap and OpenVAS, generating full PDF reports.
Projects
Selected work.
Startups, hackathon wins, and AI platforms, built end to end from the data layer to the pixels.
Lyaison
The AI librarian for company documents. Upload, auto-classify, and retrieve files through semantic search and a chat interface with citations. Role-based, permission-aware retrieval makes sure each user only ever sees what they're allowed to. Co-founded and engineered the platform end to end.
Syntrum AI
Mesh-powered intelligence for AgriTech & CleanTech: self-healing sensor networks with edge AI that monitor soil, crops, livestock, and ecosystems fully offline in remote, off-grid environments.
Cosmic Vision
Interactive solar-system simulation built on real astronomical data with Three.js for the NASA Space Apps Challenge. It earned the Galactic Problem Solver recognition.
Arclore
A production-grade AI platform: GenAI tooling and full-stack app development built around local LLMs, from inference pipelines to the interface.
Offline AI Assistants
Privacy-first desktop assistants and AI chat interfaces with TTS and real-time generation, including a PyQt5 virtual-pet app with custom animations and AI-driven interactions.
Skills
A toolbox that spans the stack.
Systems programming, AI engineering, web platforms, and security. Picked up by shipping, not just studying.
Systems & Embedded
AI / ML
Frontend
Backend
Cybersecurity
DevOps & Tooling
Recognition
Proof, not promises.
Recognized by NASA and Microsoft, a funded ideathon win, and a patented product shipped to market. And still counting.
01
NASA Space Apps: Galactic Problem Solver
Recognized by NASA for Cosmic Vision, an interactive solar-system simulation using real astronomical data and classification algorithms for motion control.
02
ACIE Ideathon: Winner
Won both prelims and finals, qualifying for funding eligibility with an AI-driven product pitch.
03
Microsoft Specialist at 14
Earned the Microsoft Specialist certification at age 14 with a score of 850 on the official exam.
04
Lead Coder, Patented Startup
Lead coder in a launched, patented startup operating overseas, taking a product from idea all the way to market.
Education
BSc in Computer Science
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) · 2021–2025
French Baccalaureate in Socioeconomics
Sainte Famille Française · Jounieh, Lebanon
Languages
- EnglishNative
- ArabicNative
- FrenchAdvanced