Omar Shaalan
Senior Data Engineer
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolOmar Shaalan is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of software and data experience, currently building data infrastructure at 0x after leading blockchain data engineering and core ingestion teams at TRM Labs. He has a strong track record designing ELT pipelines, real-time event-driven systems with Kafka and Flink, and orchestrating workflows on Airflow and Kubernetes within GCP and AWS environments. At Swvl he engineered real-time compliance and large-scale Spark/EMR processing that directly enabled market expansion, demonstrating both product impact and operational rigor. His background spans backend and blockchain development, plus accessibility-focused system work, reflecting a blend of systems programming and data platform expertise. Based in Cairo, Omar pairs pragmatic engineering—Python, Scala, Java, SQL—with leadership in cross-functional teams to move complex data projects from prototype to production. He’s quietly focused on making real-time, auditable data flows reliable and scalable in regulated and fast-moving domains.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
IGCSE Internation General Certificate of Secondary Education , IGCSE Internation General Certificate of Secondary Education at Manarat Al-SharkiaBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer and Communication Engineering at Cairo University
English, Arabic, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
phonetics9
linguistics8
tiddlywiki8
normalization8
mate5
etl1
telegram1
editor1
solana1
text-editor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shaalan31/LIWI
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Language Independent Writer Identification
Contributions:179 commits in 2 months
tiddlywikilanguage-independentindependentphoneticsnormalization
Shaalan31/drive
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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