Omar Jackman
Software Engineer at Netflix
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Jackman is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building product-scale systems across media and social platforms, now contributing at Netflix after a five-year staff engineering tenure at LinkedIn. His career spans startups and large tech—from MTV Networks and Automattic to Twitter—bringing deep hands-on expertise in web and backend development. He’s known for bridging product needs and engineering execution, scaling features that serve large, diverse user bases. Based in Oakland, Omar combines legacy systems knowledge from long-term roles with modern cloud-scale engineering practiced at top-tier companies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors peers while driving technical direction. He holds a BE from City University of New York City College and a track record of adapting across fast-changing product and platform landscapes.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BE, BE at City University of New York City College
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
docker10
docker-image10
wordpress10
vmware10
bitnami10
redux10
container-image10
nodejs10
react10
utilities7
lodash6
react-component6
userscripts6
testing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Contributions:172 commits, 172 PRs, 415 pushes in 1 year 6 months
javascriptwordpressreactes6es6-javascript
omarjackman/docker-wordpress-v8js
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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