Omar Hatem is a Senior Mobile Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading mobile teams, currently driving the flagship Flutter app at Cake Labs from Cairo while registered in Germany. He combines deep Flutter expertise with iOS-specific contributions—most notably implementing QR code flows and localization for the open-source Cake Wallet project used by noncustodial cryptocurrency users. Omar has repeatedly taken products from concept to launch, from a social food app to e-commerce and educational platforms, and he balances feature development with CI/CD, testing, and performance stability. As a team lead he mentors engineers, conducts hiring, and enforces best practices, while staying active in open-source work that touches security-sensitive fintech use cases. Beyond code, he’s passionate about cross-cultural experiences and brings that global curiosity to user-centered product decisions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Thanwya amma, science/math, 92%, Thanwya amma, science/math, 92% at DH language school
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Very Good, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Very Good at Cairo University
The open source repository for Cake Wallet, a noncustodial multi-currency wallet, and Monero.com, a noncustodial Monero-only wallet. Need help? Check out https://docs.cakewallet.com
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:77 releases, 1655 reviews, 371 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to the iOS codebase of the Cake Wallet, implementing features related to QR code functionality. They added QR code fullscreen flow and UI localization. In addition, the user worked on modifying the wallet seed/keys screen for various wallets, including hiding keys for Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets. Moreover, the user added features to send and receive data from QR codes.
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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