Omar Asghar
Sofware Developer at Canadian Digital Service / Service numérique canadien
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Asghar is a pragmatic software developer based in Ottawa with eight years of experience combining mobile-first engineering and business-savvy product thinking. He has shipped consumer-scale mobile features and UX-focused interfaces across iOS, Android and React Native—contributing to Canada's national Covid Alert app and modernizing legacy apps into Swift and Kotlin for regulated products. Comfortable with cloud-native deployments and CI/CD, Omar pairs front-end component architecture and automated testing with practical AWS/Docker operational experience. His background as a financial analyst gives him an edge in translating product requirements into measurable business outcomes and secure, compliant implementations. Always learning and creator-minded, he enjoys polishing pixel-perfect designs while tackling performance, authentication, and accessibility challenges.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of commerce, Accounting and Finance, Bachelors of commerce, Accounting and Finance at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaErindale Secondary School
English, Urdu, French
Github Skills (7)
uid10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
accessibility9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/covid-alert-app
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Exposure notification client application / Application client de notification d'exposition
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:102 reviews, 45 commits, 98 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to the development of the iOS mobile application, specifically focusing on implementing new features and UI updates. Their work involved creating new screens and views, integrating components, and modifying existing code to reflect the approved user interface. They also addressed UI adjustments, content updates, and various bug fixes across the application.
exposure-notificationnotificationsnotificationexposureexposition
cds-snc/cds-website-cms
Jul 2021 - Jul 2024
CMS for the CDS website
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years
cmscdscds-website
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