Omar Albeik
Founder at Unblock Syria
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Albeik is a founder and senior software engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-quality iOS and frontend products for companies like Booking.com and Spotify while also founding multiple ventures. He combines hands-on mobile architecture and CI/CD expertise—having led modular iOS frameworks, internal dependency systems and fastlane/Jenkins pipelines—with product-focused leadership and mentoring. An active open-source contributor, Omar has extended the popular SwifterSwift library with many Swift and UI extensions and accompanying unit tests, boosting developer productivity. Based in Amsterdam, he blends engineering rigor from large-scale apps and experimentation platforms with an entrepreneurial instinct for shipping reusable components and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Aleppo UniversityNanodegree, iOS Developer, Nanodegree, iOS Developer at UdacityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Bahcesehir UniversityLearn React Track, Learn React Track at Treehouse
English, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
strings10
date-manipulation10
text-manipulation10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
ios9
unit-testing9
macos8
cocoa-touch6
uikit6
xcode6
iphone6
autolayout6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SwifterSwift/SwifterSwift
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 releases, 4 reviews, 419 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Omar's contributions focused on extending the SwifterSwift library by adding various extensions for common Swift data types and UI elements. Their initial commits introduced extensions for `String`, `UIView`, and `UITextField`, while later commits added extensions for `Date` and more UI elements like `UIColor`, and `UIImageView`. The user also added unit tests for the implemented extensions.
swift-extensionsextensionsproductivity-boosteriosswifterswift
max-itup/content
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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