Omar Sahyoun
Lead Developer at SumOfUs
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOmar Sahyoun is a pragmatic technology leader and Lead Developer with 14 years of full-stack experience building high-traffic, production-grade web platforms. Currently guiding engineering at SumOfUs, he combines hands-on development with team mentorship and pragmatic delivery practices honed at Quipper and early-stage 3scale. He has deep Ruby/Rails experience and a track record of shipping resilient API-driven systems and education-focused services under continuous integration and code review disciplines. Known for humble leadership, he prioritises collaboration, growing junior engineers, and turning ambiguous problems into maintainable solutions. Based in Bristol, he brings a scientist’s curiosity from a Biology BSc to engineering, often approaching technical design with experimental rigor and pragmatic iteration.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Github Skills (31)
instagram-api10
searching10
prototypes10
react10
instagram9
javascript9
jquery9
extends6
ruby-on-rails6
dom-events6
dom6
weather6
yahoo-api6
ruby6
json6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SumOfUs/mailing_service
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
A mailing service using AWS SES, Lambda and Dynamodb
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
aws-dynamodbserverlessaws-lambdamailingamazon-dynamodb
SumOfUs/share_progress
Aug 2015 - Mar 2020
A Ruby wrapper library for the ShareProgress API.
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
ruby-wrapperapiwrapper-libraryruby
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