Omar Alkersh
DevOps Engineer at Dayforce
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOmar Alkersh is a DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems and automating delivery pipelines across enterprises. He has driven IaC, CI/CD, and configuration management efforts at Caseware and Agentnoon and now applies that expertise at Dayforce to improve reliability and deployment velocity. Comfortable coding in Go, TypeScript and Python, Omar blends software development rigor with incident leadership and disaster recovery planning to reduce downtime and harden environments. He has a proven track record of deploying AWS EKS infrastructure and implementing security controls that align with compliance processes. Known for anticipating industry shifts, he pairs an academic grounding from McMaster with a pragmatic focus on efficiency—his GitHub quip about preferring List.sort hints at a developer who values simple, reliable solutions. Based in Vaughan, Ontario, he’s building a like-minded team focused on forward-thinking automation and operational excellence.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at McMaster University
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Github Skills (138)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OZoneGuy/activity-reporter
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Reports if the PC is active to an MQTT queue.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
puffproject/test-runner
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Backend microservice managing user code uploads and running test cases
Contributions:23 reviews, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
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