Omar Ibrahim
Senior Software Engineer at Mapbox
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Ibrahim is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building performant, user-focused web applications and libraries. Currently at Mapbox, he brings front-end expertise in animation, accessibility, and software architecture—evidenced by contributions to the popular motion library where he implemented focus gesture handling, tests, and examples. His background spans fintech at Capital One and full-stack projects at Nakisa and Cloudypedia, where he optimized a Jira search from ~36s to ~2.5s and implemented robust transaction and logging patterns. Comfortable across Vue, React, Java, and cloud-backed systems, he pairs practical engineering with attention to UX and accessibility. Based in Old Toronto, Omar combines production-grade shipping with a curiosity for graphics and low-level interaction details that improve developer and end-user experience.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at McGill University
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
animation10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
test-automation8
jestjs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
motiondivision/motion
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
A modern animation library for React and JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to the development of focus gesture features within the motion animation library. Their work involved creating and modifying files related to focus gestures, including implementation of event handling for focus and blur events. The commits also included the addition of test cases and examples to demonstrate the new functionality, and the incorporation of new AnimationType values. The user also updated other files related to types, and motion features.
reactanimationproduction-readyreactjsgesture
oielbanna/portfolio
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 review, 27 PRs, 105 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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