Omar Masad
CTO at Talktime
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Masad is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web and mobile systems across startups and enterprise banks. As CTO of TalkTime and Founder & CTO of TestApp.io, he blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor to deliver high-availability services and automated mobile testing tooling. He has led large cross-functional teams through digital transformation at Emirates NBD and driven early-stage product wins—training engineers from scratch, shipping investor-ready milestones, and exiting a previous startup. A polyglot engineer comfortable in Go, Java, Node.js and cloud-native stacks, Omar also contributes open-source test and API boilerplates that emphasize CI/CD and automated quality. Based in Dubai, he’s known for turning messy requirements into repeatable platforms and for a rare mix of full-stack coding, team coaching, and deployment automation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at The Bishop's SchoolUniversity of Petra "جامعة البترا"
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
155reputation
85kreached
10answers
7questions
Github Skills (21)
restful-api10
testing10
go-testing10
go10
postgresql9
redis9
jwt9
cicd8
middleware7
golang7
databases7
database7
jquery-selectors6
mongodb6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Massad/gin-boilerplate
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
The fastest way to deploy a restful api's with Gin Framework with a structured project that defaults to PostgreSQL database and JWT authentication middleware stored in Redis
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 6 reviews, 54 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on developing and testing backend functionalities for the Gin-based RESTful API. They implemented unit tests and integrated Travis CI for automated testing, ensuring code quality. Their contributions included modifying existing code, adding new test cases for article-related functionalities, and updating the testing and deployment scripts. The user demonstrated expertise in Go and the Gin framework, along with integration of testing and CI/CD.
storedapi-sfastestpostman-collectionboilerplate-template
testappio/ios-sample-app
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
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