Omar Abdel-Wahab | Lead Software Engineer

Profile

Combining technical, business and human aspects of building technology products and startups thanks to over 14 years of experience.

Possessing excellent leadership, negotiation and presentation skills.
Managing releases, define quality metrics and delivery operations for software products.
Experienced with modern agile development techniques (Scrum and Kanban).
Defining and optimizing various processes to streamline team and company productivity.
Talent acquisition, training, and managing functional and cross-functional teams up to 14 people.
Experienced in product integration techniques, multi-tier applications, SOA and MSA.
Delivered robust production apps in Ruby, PHP, Java, Go and JavaScript.
Built solutions using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Solr/ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDb and InfluxDb.
Covered over 80% of my projects using Rspec, Capybara, PHPUnit, JUnit, Jasmine and Minitest.
Continuously delivered web and mobile apps using Jenkins/Hudson, Travis, CodeShip and BitBucket Pipelines.
Scaled on bare metal, Digital Ocean and AWS using a plethora of tools varying from simple shell scripts to Capistrano, AWS Code Deploy, Ansible and Docker Swarm.
Automated orchestration and provisioning using Ansible, Chef, TerraForm and Packer.
Built native Android and Cross-platform mobile apps.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ Ocono

Apr 2017 - Present

Maintained an ad delivery system serving millions of requests per hour.
Powered a massive refactoring of legacy systems into more efficient ones.

CTO @ Eventtus

Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

Helped the company raise Series A and increase its valuation by 2.5x.
Grew the company technical team from 2 people to 14 people.
Architected and implemented fully-automated, rolling deployments using AWS, applied best DevOps practices resulting in 5x scalability at 75% cost.
Architected the switch from LAMP monolith to Microservices using Ruby, NodeJS and Go.
Revamped software delivery process and introduced various agile practices.
Scaled the company from 7 to 24 people by revamping the entire recruitment process, recruitment tools, introducing competency-based appraisal and enforcing pay grades.

Interim CTO @ Appenza

Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Architected the company’s first product using a single code base to deliver both web and mobile apps using AngularJS, Cordova and Ruby on Rails.

Co-founder/CTO @ OverC Studios

Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

Built and architected multiple cross-platform mobile and web applications using Ruby on Rails, Ionic Framework and Electron. Recruited and managed a team of 13 people.