Omar Mekky
Director Of Engineering at CodeTime.tv
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolOmar Mekky is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organizations across MENA, currently serving as Director of Engineering at lite and founder of CodeTime.tv. He has repeatedly advanced from hands-on development and research projects to executive roles (CTO, Head of Engineering, Global Head of Engineering), demonstrating a rare blend of product intuition and technical depth across startups and growth-stage companies like Swvl and Payrails. Omar’s background includes founding research-driven ventures (Xeroworks) and leading mentoring programs, showing a long-standing commitment to developer education and engineering craft. Known for turning visionary ideas into operational teams, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on shipping reliable systems. Based in Cairo, he brings cross-functional leadership and a designer’s sensibility to solving complex product and engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Al Rowad Language School
Arabic, German, French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (98)
quickfix10
pgp10
security10
gcp10
secrets10
golang10
azure10
secret-management10
neovim-plugin10
statusbar10
aws10
devops10
bash9
lua9
neovim9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mash-ltd/tekeya
Sep 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 6 months
cousine/mebla
Jun 2011 - Sep 2015
An elasticsearch wrapper for mongoid odm based on slingshot
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 4 months
elasticsearchmongoid
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