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Omar Zakaria Ben Mustapha

Software Engineer · Games · XR · Mobile · AI

Profile

Software engineer with a Computer Science engineering degree, specialised in mobile development (iOS and Android), video games, virtual reality and LLM-powered agents. A creative, organised team player with natural leadership, used to taking products from the first brainstorm to launch.

Latest project

MacLC — HDR media player for Apple Silicon · 2026

A macOS-only media player for Apple Silicon, forked from VLC 4.0.0-dev. It keeps libVLC's complete demuxing and decoding engine and rebuilds everything above it: a Metal compute shader that expands SDR highlights into the extra brightness of XDR displays, fixes for six macOS display-pipeline defects, and a native AppKit interface.

6.15× display headroom, measured on an M3 Max · 0.53 ms shader time per 1080p frame · 0.91 ms shader time per 4K frame · 10-bit BT.2020 PQ output

hazenstudio.com/maclc · github.com/OZBM/MacLC

Experience

  1. Head of Gaming Division · Orange Tunisie

    Oct 2017 – Apr 2022

    Tunis, Tunisia

    • Built an online gaming platform that reached 300,000+ active users.
    • Launched multiple mobile games with more than 1 million downloads combined.
    • Organised e-sport events drawing thousands of participants.
    • Created an augmented-reality game promoting tourism in Tunisia.
    • Managed game projects end to end in C, C#, Java, Unity and Unreal Engine.

  2. Software Engineer · Founder of Hazen · Ingenium / Hazen

    Oct 2017 – Apr 2022

    Tunis, Tunisia

    • Designed a VR headset compatible with any smartphone.
    • Launched the Hazen VR app store and its universal headset.
    • Developed a VR educational platform for immersive professional training.
    • Managed cross-functional teams and worked with stakeholders on product innovation.

  3. Unity Lead Programmer · QuinQ

    Sep 2015 – Jul 2017

    Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia

    • Developed the rehabilitation game platform used by MindMaze (Switzerland) with 10,000+ users.
    • Implemented motion-capture systems for rehabilitation games.
    • Created game concepts, levels and characters tailored to patients' needs.
    • Worked with healthcare institutions to run game-based rehabilitation programmes.

Selected projects

  • Rehabilitation Game Platform · MindMaze (Switzerland), via QuinQ, 2015 – 2017. Therapeutic mini-games for stroke, multiple-sclerosis and sports-injury recovery, on a platform with more than 10,000 users.
  • Orange Tunisie Gaming Platform · Orange Tunisie, 2017 – 2022. An online gaming portal for Orange Tunisie that grew to 300,000+ active players and hosted e-sport events.
  • Tourism AR Experience · Orange Tunisie, 2017 – 2022. An augmented-reality game that brings Tunisia's cultural and historical sites to life on visitors' phones.
  • VR Educational Platform · Ingenium, 2017 – 2022. Immersive VR scenarios used by institutions for professional training, from emergency response to industrial operations.
  • Hazen Universal VR Headset · Hazen, 2017 – 2022. An affordable VR headset that turns any smartphone into a display, launched through Hazen, the VR company I founded.
  • Hazen VR App Store · Hazen, 2017 – 2022. A marketplace where people found and bought VR apps from Hazen and third-party developers.