Omar E.

Omar E.

Senior Fullstack Developer

Cairo, Egypt
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About Me

Omar is a Senior Fullstack Developer with software and cyber security engineering expertise - bringing modern technologies and practices into solutions to architect systems that are resilient to disruptions and failures, improve reliability, and support rapid scaling on projects. He defines, designs and refines solutions to keep projects one step ahead - anticipating challenges and innovating ideas using the latest tech, tools and systems.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Fullstack Developer
2022 - Present (2 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative fullstack software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Zyda
Zyda
Engineering Manager
2021 - Present (3 years)
Cairo, Egypt
  • Supervise the growth stream team to design, develop and implement 3rd-party integrations on the Zyda platform.

  • Embrace and evangelize the latest best practices on the team to deliver integration solutions on the project.

  • Coordinate with other teams to resource the growth team on projects - suggesting strategies and making improvements on solutions.

Sonder Inc.
Sonder Inc.
Senior Software Engineer
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
Remote
  • Provided expertise in Rails to build and maintain solutions on the OTA distribution team - completing dev activities across the stack.

  • Assisted with a variety of 3rd-party integrations on the listings stream between Sonder and booking.com, Expedia and AirBnB.

  • Participated in deploying releases and disaster recovery activities to maintain high levels of quality on solutions.

Accounto
Accounto
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Zurich , Switzerland
  • Maintained and evolved the primary Ruby on Rails codebase on Accounto's platform.

  • Worked closely with business stakeholders and backend team to define requirements and develop features on the project.

  • Troubleshhot, diagnosed and resolved complex production issues to improve the platform.

Andela
Andela
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Egypt
  • Led a team of 5 devs to design and implement an SSO that gives users access to administrative tools.

  • Brought modern technologies and practices to the project to improve reliability and support rapid scaling of user needs.

  • Mentored junior devs, made architectural decisions and prepared design documents for the dashboard.

Github
Github
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Remote
  • Designed and implemented both frontend and backend components and solutions for the trade compliance team.

  • Built the core web applications for the compliance team - working with a wide range of tools and technologies.

  • Served as a technical lead on the team - writing, debugging, testing and shipping code to different environments.

Seismic
Seismic
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Remote
  • Designed, built and implemented integration solutions on the Seismic growth and marketing platforms.

  • Fine-tuned and improved a variety of sophisticated software integration solutions with different social media networks.

  • Implemented high performing solutions - analyzing and reviewing requests and specifications to customize them to client requirements.

DoStuff
DoStuff
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Worked within the Subscription and Billing team to design and build 3 sprint features on the billing dashboard.

  • Designed new solutions to drive product strategy on the project - creating tools to enhance billing solutions.

  • Led the team to leverage different technologies, integrate many components and evangelize solutions on the project.

Confidential Client
Confidential Client
Technical Lead / Architect
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Egypt
  • Led a dev team on the project to build and implement super real-time monitoring tools and access control utilities.

  • Optimized microservices and APIs on solutions - delivering tested, maintainable, and documented software.

  • Defined, developed and evolved solutions for the client - enhancing technology choices, architectural considerations and implementation strategy.

iEPM
iEPM
Technical Lead / Architect
2015 - 2018 (3 years)
Saudi Arabia
  • Designed, developed and implemented several mobile and web apps on the project - maintaining performance, changeability, and reliability.

  • Solved difficult, non-routine and complex software problems on solutions - applying advanced dev processes and tools.

  • Improved the performance, reliability, observability, and accessibility of solutions on the project.

Master Linux
Master Linux
Backend Team Lead
2013 - 2015 (2 years)
Egypt
  • Designed, built and maintained different software and big data solutions for clients.

  • Led the backend team to containerize, deploy and orchestrate high performing applications on projects.

  • Troubleshot and diagnosed complex backend issues - improving software controls, identifying risks, and mitigating them.

Q-Cert
Q-Cert
Senior Systems / Security Engineer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Qatar
  • Conducted technical assessments focused on finding privacy issues and delivering several ethical hacking reports.

  • Researched new tactics, techniques and procedures that may lead to inappropriate access of user data for QCert.

  • Provided QCert with findings and information to inform its risk management and decision-making processes.

Portfolio

Engineering Manager - Zyda
Engineering Manager - Zyda

Led the dev processes for Zyda, a platform that allows restaurants and cafes to build online stores in no time. It facilitates processes to integrate restaurants with delivery couriers, country-specific SMS gateways, POS platforms and payment gateways for online payments. Managed the implementation of all 3rd-party integrations on the solution - serving 3000+ stores.

Senior Software Engineer - Sonder
Senior Software Engineer - Sonder

Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Worked on the Sonder listing platform, a web portal that manages integrations, listings and collections between Sonder and other OTAs.

Senior Software Engineer - Wuilt
Senior Software Engineer - Wuilt

Wuilt is a dynamic web app generator that allows users to create websites automatically using user-provider content and some drag-and-drop techniques. Designed, developed and implemented solutions on the project.

Education

Certified Incident Handling Engineer
Certified Incident Handling Engineer
Mile 2
2017 - 2017
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
SCRUMstudy
2017 - 2017
Certified Penetration Testing Engineer
Certified Penetration Testing Engineer
Mile 2
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Certified Professional Ethical Hacker
Certified Professional Ethical Hacker
Mile 2
2016 - 2016
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and Computer Science
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and Computer Science
Tanta University
2006 - 2010 (4 years)