Omar Mohamed
Staff Engineer NordVPN at Nord Security
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolOmar Mohamed is a Staff Engineer at NordVPN with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating high-availability backend systems and observability stacks. He specializes in scaling and hardening API and core services—driving migrations to Kubernetes, adopting service mesh (Linkerd), and building global rate-limiting and telemetry-driven alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch. A pragmatic systems thinker, he has improved reliability by replacing locking with RabbitMQ consistent hashing, tuning caching and FPM workers, and authoring RFCs and incident reports that shaped team-wide best practices. He mentors 20+ engineers, open-sourced an Nginx Lua rate-limiter as a lightweight sidecar, and blends infrastructure automation (Helm/ArgoCD) with developer-facing tooling like OpenAPI-driven SDK pipelines. Based in Munich, he pairs deep backend and distributed-systems expertise with a philosophy of resilience—“good timber does not grow with ease”—applied to both code and teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cairo University
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
mysql9
lumen-framework9
laravel9
wordpress9
php8
woocommerce7
bundle7
openapi6
laravel-query-builder6
vue6
intervention6
symfony6
sum6
commerce6
spring-mvc6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
omarfawzi/Jessy-El-Murr
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
omarfawzi/Restful-API-Starter
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 releases, 148 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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