Omair Vaiyani
Founder & CTO at Synap
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOmair Vaiyani is Founder & CTO of Synap, an EdTech scale-up he’s led since 2015 to build an intelligent, customizable study platform used by communities and institutions. With 11 years of experience and a background as a medical doctor plus an MSc in Health Informatics, he combines clinical insight with technical leadership to design learning systems tuned for high-stakes assessment preparation. He remains a hands-on engineer, contributing backend features and fixes to notable open-source projects like parse-server to support authentication triggers and GraphQL schema customizations. Previously he built web and Android learning tools for national student bodies and worked on rapid healthcare innovation, showing a consistent focus on practical, impactful products. Based in Leeds, he blends entrepreneurial grit with product-first engineering and a rare perspective on how medical training informs pedagogical software design.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (MBChB) Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (MBChB) Medicine at University of LeedsInternational Baccalaureatte Chemistry, International Baccalaureatte Chemistry at Tollbar BEC
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
mbaas10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
parse-server10
nodejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
rest-api9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
parse-community/parse-server
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
Parse Server for Node.js / Express
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Omair primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the Parse Server, a Node.js/Express-based BaaS. They implemented new features such as the `beforeLogin` trigger, enabling support for authentication providers. The user also addressed GraphQL configurations, allowing for customization of class schemas, and fixed a critical bug related to mutations. They also addressed direct access issues by adding context to the save request.
file-storageexpressnotificationsgraphql-servermongodb
omairvaiyani/ghact-uilicious
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
UI-licious GitHub Action to trigger test runs.
Contributions:6 releases, 11 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
testingtriggerliciousruns
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