Omar Alkhalili
Senior Software Engineer at eSkillz
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Alkhalili is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and testing backend systems, APIs, and integrations using Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot. He combines hands-on development with strong testing discipline—authoring automated unit/integration suites, accessibility and cross-platform UI tests, and restoring legacy test pipelines to improve release stability. His background spans cybersecurity tooling (contributions to a Spring Boot app exposing Log4j behaviors), cloud-native practices with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS, and production troubleshooting from support to platform engineering. CompTIA Security+ certified and an MS in Information Technology, Omar brings a practical security mindset to feature delivery and devops automation. He’s as comfortable writing Protobuf/gRPC services and CI pipelines as he is investigating post-production incidents, making him a reliable bridge between engineering, QA, and operations.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
GPA: 3.6, GPA: 3.6 at Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFrench Language Certificate, Intermediate and Conversational Level, French Language Certificate, Intermediate and Conversational Level at French Institute of the Alps, AnnecyAssociate in Arts, Liberal Arts, GPA: 4.0, Associate in Arts, Liberal Arts, GPA: 4.0 at Bergen Community CollegeBachelor of Arts, Political Science, GPA: 3.9, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, GPA: 3.9 at Ramapo College of New JerseyMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, GPA: 3.9, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, GPA: 3.9 at Montclair State University
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (6)
javas10
log4j10
java10
spring-boot10
rest-api9
security8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaakaww/javaspringvulny
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
javaspringvulny - a Spring Boot web application built wrong on purpose
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 56 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on modifying and adding routes related to a Log4j vulnerability within the Spring Boot application. Their contributions involved adding a new endpoint and altering existing ones to receive input, and also modifying the `MultiHttpSecurityConfig` to allow access to the newly created routes. The user also reverted changes related to logger imports and spacing adjustments. These changes suggest an effort to expose and test the Log4j vulnerability within the application.
spring-bootweb-applicationpurposespringspring-boot-web
oa1802/celestial-hotel
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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