Omar Al-ithawi
TOC Board Member at Open edX Community
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolOmar Al-ithawi is a software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and e-learning solutions from Istanbul. As founder of Zeitlabs and a TOC Board Member for the Open edX community, he blends entrepreneurial product focus with open-source stewardship for large-scale learning systems. He has hands-on full-stack experience—improving UIs, fixing editor and unicode issues, and adding RTL support to the widely used Open edX LMS. Previously a staff engineer at Appsembler and senior engineer at the Queen Rania Foundation, he has a track record of shipping robust features for education and nonprofit sectors. His work uniquely combines platform-level engineering with accessibility and internationalization expertise, making education more reachable across languages and regions. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Princess Sumaya University for Technology.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree Computer Science, Masters Degree Computer Science at Princess Sumaya University for Technology
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Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Sep 2014 - May 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 87 commits, 117 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on front-end and back-end development, with a particular emphasis on user interface improvements and bug fixes within the Open edX LMS platform. They implemented TinyMCE RTL support for the course bulk email feature and addressed various editor issues. The user also made several unicode fixes across the platform and incorporated enhancements for course and platform language handling.
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Edraak/arabic-mathjax
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
An extension for Arabic math support in MathJax.
Contributions:4 releases, 119 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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