Omar Mahdi
Founder & CEO at Overlord Systems
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Mahdi is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building backend systems, game engines, and lower-level software across startups and research environments. As Founder & CEO of Overlord Systems and Co-Founder of RamzVPN, he blends product-led entrepreneurship with hands-on technical depth. He has led engineering teams at regional startups like Sabbar and Nawafeth and served as a technical lead at Dapi, delivering production-grade systems in payments and platform services. His background spans academic research at the University of Sharjah and practical internships in Europe, reflecting a mix of rigorous problem-solving and production delivery. Based in the United Arab Emirates, Omar is equally comfortable architecting scalable backends or diving into performance-critical game engine code. He often bridges strategic leadership and low-level coding—an uncommon combination that helps him turn ambitious product visions into efficient, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Highscool, Highscool at English School of KalbaBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer engineering at University of Sharjah
Arabic, English
Github Skills (127)
testing10
automation10
nike10
chromium10
latency10
firefox10
api10
developer-tools10
js-api10
node-module10
signaling10
nodejs10
paths10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bloeys/physx-c
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
bloeys/nset
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Super fast and memory efficient set implementation for unsigned integers
Contributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
super-fastmemoryunsigned-integersmemory-efficient
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