Summary
Omar Contreras is a Senior Software Developer and seasoned IT leader with 25+ years delivering infrastructure, security, and full-stack solutions across government, nonprofit, and commercial sectors from Santa Fe. He combines hands-on development (Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, Python experimentation) with large-scale systems architecture—designing and operating multi-architecture data centers and HPC clusters and leading global development teams across India, Ukraine, and Latin America. Omar has a proven record of pragmatic modernization: building custom inventory and conference systems, achieving day-one remote readiness during COVID, and implementing NIST 800-53 controls for medium/high security environments. As a consultant and director he has managed multimillion-dollar IT budgets, vendor negotiations, and cross-organizational research collaborations with LANL, NASA, and universities. Currently exploring AI-driven automation and low-code platforms while serving at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he pairs deep technical breadth with an unusual talent for translating complex systems into actionable roadmaps and cost-saving operational shifts.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, 15, Mechanical Engineering, 15 at Universidad Simón Bolívar
High School, High School at Colegio Champagnat
English, Spanish