Omar Rayward
Co-Founder at Boolean AI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Rayward is a versatile engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems and fintech product teams. As Co-Founder of Boolean AI and a multi-role veteran at Robinhood—from Senior Staff Engineer to Director of Product Management—he has led cross-functional efforts in fraud, money movement, account security, and experimentation. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redshift/Snowflake, and messaging systems with full-stack fluency in Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Clojure. An active open-source contributor to robinhood/faust, he’s improved stream-processing windowing, scheduling and Kubernetes deployment examples—skills that bridge real-time data engineering and reliable production ops. Holding PhD-level academic training from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he pairs rigorous research instincts with pragmatic startup execution.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (17)
python10
kafka10
asyncio10
windowing10
stream-processing10
cross-domain9
kubernetes9
cron9
dockers9
distributed-systems9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
testing8
html6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robinhood/faust
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Python Stream Processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits, 12 PRs, 16 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Omar contributed to Faust, a Python stream processing library, by implementing features and examples related to Kubernetes deployment and windowing functionality. They fixed bugs in windowing and table functionalities, including `now()` and hopping windows. Additionally, they worked on crontab functionality, improving the library's scheduling capabilities.
kafka-streamsstream-processingpythonasynciodata-processing
omarrayward/Linear-Algebra-Refresher-Udacity
Feb 2016 - Jun 2021
Linear algebra refresher course for Udacity to complete before the Machine Learning nanodegree
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 4 months
refresher-coursenanodegreelinear-algebraudacityrefresher
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