Omar Khan
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Khan is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and mid-size tech companies, most recently in senior engineering roles at Yard Stick PBC and Flexport. Comfortable wearing many hats, he blends front-end polish with backend reliability—evidenced by contributions to the popular Morris.js visualization library where he improved grid behavior and added range selection for time-series charts. His career spans leadership and hands-on implementation from backend team lead roles in gaming to full-stack and freelance engagements, showing adaptability across domains. Based in Chicago, he brings a multilingual and international academic background (including Chinese language studies and a BA covering economics, politics and international studies) that informs pragmatic, cross-cultural collaboration. Known among peers as an "arch-generalist," he thrives on bridging product needs and engineering constraints to ship useful features.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Economics & Social Science, Mention très bien, Baccalauréat, Economics & Social Science, Mention très bien at Lycée Français de BangkokBA, Economics, Politics and International Studies, BA, Economics, Politics and International Studies at University of WarwickChinese Language, Chinese Language at Beijing Language and Culture University
Spanish, Thai, Chinese, Italian, French, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
coffeescript10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
morrisjs/morris.js
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Pretty time-series line graphs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to the frontend of the project by modifying the grid component within the Morris.js library. Their work included removing unused methods, updating event handling from `mouseout` to `mouseleave`, and adding the functionality for range selection. These changes enhance the user interaction and provide new features for time-series line graphs, improving the overall usability of the visualization library.
javascriptline-seriesgraphsgraphtime-series
omarkhan/london-tube-income
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:78 commits in 9 months
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