Summary
Omar Ahmad is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating production-grade systems across security, DevOps and platform teams in the UK. He has progressed from senior consulting and build/release roles at BAE Systems to DevOps leadership at Stage Intelligence and IBM, and now contributes to engineering at Neo4j. His background in mathematics (King's College London, First) and applied statistics (Oxford) informs a data-driven approach to automation, observability and CI/CD. Omar blends hands-on engineering with process and tooling improvements that scale across teams, and is comfortable navigating both enterprise constraints and fast-moving product environments. A quieter detail: his career arc shows repeated ownership of release pipelines and platform reliability, making him a go-to engineer for bridging development and operations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Applied Statistics, Pass, Master of Science (MSc), Applied Statistics, Pass at University of Oxford
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, First at King's College London