About Me

I've cofounded two startups. The most recent Streak.com went through YC in Summer of 2011 and is now generating millions in revenue a year and has a team of 35 fantastic people. Hopefully one day it will be a multi-billion dollar company.

I left Streak in March of 2019. After 14 years of "The Founder Life" I decided to move back to my home town of Waterloo, Ontario and spend more time with family.

I'm still figuring out exactly what I want to do, but it should leverage the experience I've gained over the past decade and a half, this includes:

• 10+ years of intense performance focused Javascript engineering. I've personally written hundreds of thousands of lines of JS code.
• Taking a project from idea to production. I've launched hundreds of features.
• General software engineering. Professional experience with Java, Go, Python and C++. Academic experience with 20+ languages. Strong with datastructures and algorithms.
• Mentoring junior engineers. Done this half a dozen times.
• Developing a technical hiring process. Helped grow team to 12 engineers.
• Interviewing engineers. Conducted literally hundreds of phone interviews and close to a hundred onsites.
• Managing. Helped oversee technical and non-technical teams (sales and support).
• Other stuff. A lot of system architecture, product ideation, and user analysis over the years.

If I sound like someone that would bring a lot of value to you or your organization then please shoot me an email hi@omar.dev

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