Summary
Omar Haridy is a Senior Director of Data with 11 years of experience turning computer science foundations into production-grade data products for fintech and consumer platforms. He builds and scales data functions end-to-end—growing teams, defining strategy, and shipping models and pipelines that run in production across fraud prevention, credit scoring, KYC, and analytics. At Cassbana he expanded the data organization from a single hire to 15 people, delivering cloud data warehouses, streaming and batch ETLs, Arabic OCR and face-matching models, and in-house fraud systems that matched commercial alternatives. His hands-on background spans Python, PySpark, PyTorch, Spark/Databricks, AWS/Azure, and feature-to-API productionization, and he has repeatedly translated ML proofs-of-concept into measurable business impact. Now leading data at Valu in Cairo, he focuses on building fintech products that improve regional financial access while owning solutions from concept to production code. Less obvious: he pairs deep research and optimization skills from his TUM/academic background with pragmatic engineering discipline to cut costs and improve user experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at The German University in Cairo
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics at Technical University of Munich
English, French, Arabic