Omar Ismail
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Ismail is a front-end expert and technical leader with 13 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping customer-facing web products. He has led engineering and strategy across startups and scale-ups—co-founding Streak.com, driving early product growth at ProductWiki, and most recently serving as Staff Software Engineer at Stripe before joining OpenAI. Omar combines hands-on implementation skills with hiring and evaluation acumen, able to attract senior engineers and translate business goals into practical technical roadmaps. His background spans game-engine integration at EA to consumer SaaS, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems intuition and polished UX sensibilities. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he is as comfortable negotiating strategic partnerships as he is optimizing front-end performance and developer workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who balances product strategy with deep technical craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorB. SE Software Engineering, B. SE Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (58)
inbox10
thin10
zendesk10
inboxsdk10
gmail10
realms10
sdk10
gmail-api10
dropdown-menu9
menu9
api9
stream9
react-component8
dataflow-programming8
nodejs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StreakYC/node-api-wrapper
Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
NodeJS package that acts as a thin wrapper over the Streak API.
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
apiacts-asstreaknodejs-packagethin
omarstreak/jwerty
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
⌨ Awesome handling of keyboard events
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years
eventshandwritingkeyboard-eventskeyboardhandling
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