Mohamed Hefny

About

I'm a senior software engineer at Microsoft and a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, finishing in fall 2026. At SFU I research visual SLAM.

Before Microsoft I built backend services and APIs at Intact and Morgan Stanley, then worked on AWS CloudFormation, Amazon's infrastructure-as-code service. I studied software engineering at Concordia University in Montreal.

origin

London, Ontario

trained

B.Eng. Software Engineering, Concordia

studying

Graduate student, SFU (fall 2025 – fall 2026)

current

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (since Feb 2025)

previous

AWS CloudFormation · Morgan Stanley · Intact

research

visual SLAM · 3D Gaussian splatting

Experience & education

1. Feb 2025 – present

   Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

   Software engineering at Microsoft since February 2025.

2. Sep 2025 – Fall 2026 (expected)

   Graduate student, Simon Fraser University

   Research in visual SLAM and 3D Gaussian splatting, supervised by Dr. Steven Ko, Professor of Computing Science.

   Python · C++ · Visual SLAM · Gaussian splatting

3. 2023 – 2025

   Software Developer II, Amazon Web Services

   Worked on AWS CloudFormation, improving the service and the experience of the customers who define their infrastructure as code with it.

   Java · Kotlin · AWS · Infrastructure as code

4. 2022 – 2023

   Software Developer, Morgan Stanley

   Developed APIs and worked with cross-functional teams to build solutions for financial clients.

   APIs · Financial services

5. May 2021 – 2021 · Montreal, QC

   AI Software Developer, Intact Lab

   Built a Spring microservice that monitors Kafka messages, plus Python tooling on top of MongoDB and AWS S3.

   Java · Spring · Kafka · Python · MongoDB · AWS · APIs · Financial services

6. Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · Montreal, QC

   Java Software Developer, Intact Financial Corporation

   Designed and built RESTful web services in Spring and Quarkus.

   Java · Spring · Quarkus · APIs · Financial services

7. May 2019 – Aug 2019 · Montreal, QC

   Full Stack Developer, Matrox Electronic Systems

   Built the web app the QA team used to manage its inventory.

   Web

8. 2017 – 2021 · Montreal, QC

   B.Eng. Software Engineering, Concordia University

   Software engineering degree, with internships in between. Along the way: an OpenGL game, a peer-to-peer video streaming capstone, a React Native campus map and a C++ board-game engine.

   Java · C++ · Python · OpenGL · Web

9. Origin

   Born in London, Ontario

Publications

1. IROS 2026

   SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions

   Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko

2. arXiv preprint · 2026

   SLAMSqueezeBench: Comparing SLAM Systems under Resource Constraints

   Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko

3. SeQureDB @ SIGMOD 2026

   Estimating Power-Law Exponent with Edge Differential Privacy

   Adam Tan, Mohamed Hefny, Keval Vora

Google Scholar profile

Projects

• SLAM Adversarial Lab 2026

  Stress-tests visual SLAM two ways: degrade what the camera sees (fog, rain, night, a cracked lens) or the machine it runs on (CPU, memory and GPU caps, frame deadlines), across fourteen SLAM backends. IROS 2026.

  Python · Podman / Docker · CUDA

• Pollution Lens Canada 2026

  Interactive map of Canada's 2024 National Pollutant Release Inventory: 59,000 facility records traced from province to sector to where the pollution ends up, as glow maps and Sankey flows. SFU visualization course project.

  React · D3 · Canvas · Python · group project

• Switchboard 2020–21

  Web service for peer-to-peer video streaming between senders and receivers. Concordia capstone project.

  Java · Spring Boot · React · MySQL · team of 9

• SuperHypercube 2021

  OpenGL remake of Super Hypercube: rotate a shape so it fits through the hole in an oncoming wall. Shadows, textures and a soundtrack.

  C++ · OpenGL · team of 6

• Montreal Crime Analytics 2020

  A* search for the safest walk across Montreal, over a grid built from the city's crime data, with an admissible diagonal heuristic.

  Python · GeoPandas · A*

• Post Classifier 2020

  Naive Bayes classifier that sorts Hacker News posts into story, ask_hn, show_hn and poll, at over 80% accuracy on 5,000 test posts.

  Python · pandas · NLTK

• Eight-Minute Legends 2021

  A complete C++ implementation of the board game Eight-Minute Empire: Legends.

  C++ · team of 5

• CONPASS 2020

  Campus map app with indoor directions through Concordia's buildings. Mini-capstone project.

  React Native · JavaScript

• This map 2021–26

  The page you're on: Gaussian splats, point clouds and a pose graph, rendered in your browser.

  TypeScript · Next.js · three.js · WebGL