He started working on Eclipse as a Google Summer of Code 2006 student, continued working on Eclipse projects as an Engineering Intern at Google in California and stayed on board as a committer on the Eclipse Communication Framework. Before falling for Eclipse, software architecture & engineering, Mustafa was involved in Augmented Reality research with Prof. Gudrun Klinker at TU Munich, where he devised and developed AR systems for BMW Research. He holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and is currently working on his graduate degree at TUM.