President of Technology

Rachid El Guerrab is the President of Technology and Co-Founder of Human Engines Incorporated, directing the technical artistry that drives our services and products. Leading the company with over twelve years of experience, Rachid is a game industry and embedded software veteran.

Prior to Human Engines, Rachid worked at Qualcomm, bringing his years of game development experience to bear on User Experience optimization and real-time rendering problems for Qualcomm’s OEM customers. His work resulted in middleware and multimedia standards extensions for chipsets that continue to be used by OEMs and developers; his work continues to enable high performance user-experiences on some of the world’s most successful mobile devices. Before that, Rachid held leadership positions at numerous game companies including Ready at Dawn, The Collective, and Ubisoft Entertainment.

Rachid has created rendering and interactive pipelines for every game console iteration since the PlayStation; he is the brains behind titles like Daxter (PSP) and God of War – Chains of Olympus (PSP). Rachid won some of the highest technical achievement awards in the industry for these titles.

Now, under Rachid’s technical leadership, Human Engines is bridging the gap between high-end entertainment-style development techniques and user experiences on consumer devices, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on embedded platforms.

Rachid holds a ‘State Engineer’ degree in Software Engineering (the highest engineering degree in Morocco), and is a frequent speaker at conferences and industry events.