Omar Alaa
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOmar Alaa is a software development engineer with a strong track record across backend and mobile development, currently advancing distributed services at Amazon in Edinburgh. With a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University and roughly nine years of industry experience spanning startups and multinational teams in Egypt, Italy, and the UK, he focuses on building scalable backends and optimizing performance for high‑traffic applications. He moved rapidly from intern to SDE II at Amazon, demonstrating an ability to deliver production-ready systems and adopt cutting-edge technologies. Omar combines hands‑on coding with pragmatic system design, often bridging mobile client needs with resilient server architectures. Colleagues describe him as results-oriented and curious, with a knack for improving latency and resource efficiency in real deployments. He brings a global perspective gained from diverse engineering cultures and fast-paced startup environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Alexandria University
English, ArabicProgramming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omarralaa/SSPian
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 8 pushes in 4 months
omarralaa/omarralaa
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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