Omar Khan
Backend Software Engineer (Faculty Assistant) at Advanced Heat Exchangers & Process Intensification (AHXPI) /Smart & Small Thermal Systems(S2TS) Lab
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Khan is a backend software engineer with 9 years of experience, currently leading development of an energy analytics SaaS product for the Maryland state government from 0→1. He specializes in Python and increasingly Go, contributing to cloud-native projects like Traefik, ArgoCD, and Airflow, and builds scalable distributed systems using FastAPI, Django, and Spring Boot. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend depth with TypeScript/React frontend work, cloud-native DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform), and data infrastructure for SQL/NoSQL pipelines. Product-minded and decisive under uncertainty, he values developer experience and has a track record of shipping revenue-generating features and enabling large-scale analysis (700K+ survey responses) for policy and research teams.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
International Indian School, DammamMaster of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering at University of MarylandBachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM
English
Github Skills (77)
python10
automation10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
cd10
cicd10
docker10
devops10
letsencrypt9
data-engineering9
scheduler9
kustomize9
jsonnet9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ris-tlp/hangman
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Collab project to get a hang of GitHub
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
collab
ris-tlp/Ant-Detection
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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