Omar Kanawati
Director Of Engineering at Self-employed
Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Kanawati is a seasoned software leader and current CTO based in Jeddah with 11 years of experience designing and delivering production-grade software across startups and enterprise teams. He blends hands-on backend and database design with product-focused requirements engineering, having progressed from developer roles to VP-level technology leadership at Sary and technical lead positions at ALBAIK and Emkan. Comfortable running distributed teams and consulting independently since 2017, he’s known for translating ambiguous business needs into pragmatic architectures and shipping on tight timelines. Highly organized and task-driven, Omar pairs strong UX awareness with engineering rigor—an uncommon mix that helps bridge customer-facing requirements and scalable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM
Arabic, English
Github Skills (42)
scrape9
meta-tags9
scraper8
nodejs7
javascript6
puppeteer6
exec5
spawn5
api5
neo4j-server5
strings4
hex4
minecraft4
npm-scripts4
rest4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OmarKan/express-steroid
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
OmarKan/Hajj_Hackathon_Backend
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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