Omar Basem
Software Engineer at Offchain Labs
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolOmar Basem is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer based in Dubai with 9 years of experience building production-grade mobile and full-stack web3 applications. He has deep hands-on expertise in React Native, TypeScript, native iOS/Android and cryptographic systems, having shipped products like Sticknet (an open-source, end-to-end encrypted decentralized storage/social platform) and contributed significant UI features to the well-known Status mobile wallet. Omar blends product-minded front-end craftsmanship—implementing over 40% of wallet UI components and sophisticated gestures—with backend and infra skills (AWS, CI/CD) and a published IEEE cryptography paper he turned into native libraries. He routinely drives architectural refactors (JS→TS), mentor-level code reviews, and performance-focused cryptographic optimizations that kept real-time apps responsive. Known for inventing practical security primitives (e.g., session key lifecycles and password-hiding double-hashing) and shipping reusable component libraries, he’s comfortable moving between protocol design and polished UX.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English, German, French
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Github Skills (11)
mobile10
uid10
user-interface10
react-native10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
clojurescript10
ui-components10
ios6
apple-push-notifications6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-mobile
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (React Native)
Mobile Developer (React Native)Contributions:1492 reviews, 168 commits, 455 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Omar's contributions primarily revolve around implementing new user interface (UI) components and features for the Status mobile application. Their work includes adding the ability to reply to messages, autocomplete mentions, displaying pinned messages, and editing/deleting messages for various content types. These changes involve modifications to the UI screens, message rendering logic, and bottom sheet designs, showcasing their focus on front-end development within the React Native framework.
ethereumwalletiosmobilemessenger
OmarBasem/libsignal-protocol-java
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Signal Protocol library for Java/Android
Contributions:58 releases, 95 pushes, 59 tags in 7 months
signaljava-androidprotocolsignal-protocolandroid
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