Omar Shaban
Senior Software Engineer at softten
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Shaban is a senior software engineer and founder based in Berlin with 13 years building scalable, service-oriented systems across startups and enterprises. He combines hands-on backend expertise in PHP, Python and microservices with mobile iOS contributions—having added practical Swift extensions to the popular SwifterSwift repo—to boost developer productivity. As a former Founder & CTO and repeat startup builder, he blends product-minded engineering with infrastructure automation and event-driven design. His career spans core platform work at Billie and Chegg to architecting high-throughput SMS and search systems, reflecting comfort with both legacy stacks and modern Docker/Kafka-based architectures. Known as a socialpreneur and synthosiast, he brings an unusual mix of technical depth, entrepreneurial grit, and a focus on building things that matter.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at University of the District of ColumbiaBachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Modern Acedemy
Arabic, English
Github Skills (11)
magento-extension10
swift10
webextension10
ios10
extension-methods10
uikit9
dates8
strings8
uicolor8
arrayobject8
c-string8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
SwifterSwift/SwifterSwift
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:13 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Omar contributed to the SwifterSwift repository, adding new extensions to existing Swift files. These extensions enhance the functionality of built-in Swift types like String, Array, Date, Double, Int, Character and UIColor. Their work included adding utility methods for string manipulation, array operations, date calculations, and color manipulation, directly contributing to the project's aim of providing helpful Swift extensions.
swift-extensionsextensionsproductivity-boosteriosswifterswift
bookla-foundation/toute
Jun 2020 - May 2022
toute - ElasticSearch Object Document Mapper (ODM) in python
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 65 commits in 1 year 11 months
pythonobjectmapperdocument-mapperpython3mapper
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