Ahmed Omar
CTO at umob
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAhmed Omar is a CTO and former biomedical engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable software, technical teams, and product-driven roadmaps across Europe. He has led engineering at startups and large organizations, from architecting Erlang-based telecom systems that scaled to millions of users to raising Series A funding and growing engineering teams to 14+ developers. Known for simplifying architectures—improving observability, cost efficiency, and reliability—he blends hands-on systems design with people-first leadership and mentoring. Based in Rotterdam, he pairs a pragmatic product focus with a problem-solver’s curiosity, often bringing interdisciplinary insights from his biomedical background into technology strategy. An advocate for empathy in leadership, he consistently prioritizes team growth while driving measurable improvements in product KPIs.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Systems and Biomedical Engineering, B.Sc Systems and Biomedical Engineering at Cairo University
English, Arabic, Dutch
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Github Skills (51)
erlang10
elixir10
beam10
erlang-otp10
otp10
gleam10
kurento9
webrtc9
collaboration9
conferencing9
mediasoup9
docker-registry8
mnesia8
bigbluebutton8
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ngti/jinglenodes
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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spawnthink/starter-blog
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
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