Omar Ahmed
VP Of Engineering & Product at PPRO
Amsterdam, North Holland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Ahmed is a seasoned engineering leader with 18+ years building software and over a decade managing and scaling engineering teams, now serving as VP of Engineering & Product at PPRO. He has deep expertise in payments, distributed systems, microservices, API design, and cloud-native platforms (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes), having led 40 engineers across six payments teams at Wayfair. Known for blending hands-on architecture and language versatility (JavaScript, Go, PHP, Java) with people leadership, he builds culture, hiring, and processes that align technical strategy to business priorities. Based in Amsterdam and Berlin-market experienced, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable, reactive systems and has a history of moving from senior IC roles to leading managers and directors — a profile that balances technical depth with sustained organizational growth.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Al-Sedeek Language SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Modern Academy For Engineering & Technology
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (101)
api-platform9
near9
forwarding9
cli8
stow8
api8
stream8
piping8
ubuntu8
kvm8
logging8
json-ld8
x118
logger8
docker-run7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
omarahm3/squirrel
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
🐿️ Realtime logs sharing by just piping squirrel
Contributions:3 releases, 181 commits, 30 PRs in 1 month
golangpipingrealtimeloggersquirrel
omarahm3/nvim
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
My NeoVim dotfiles
Contributions:14 PRs, 122 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
luavimlinuxneovimdotfiles
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