Omar Shibli
Software Engineer at Wix.com
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Shibli is a seasoned software engineer and hands-on tech leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across networking, adtech, healthcare and fintech. He combines strategic product thinking with deep execution skills—designing microservices, data pipelines, and high-throughput platforms while leading cross-functional teams in fast-growth startups and established companies like Wix and Zocdoc. Omar has driven measurable performance gains (10–100x search improvements, 2–3x regex speedups, and major RPS scaling) and led architecture initiatives including Open Banking, Keycloak-based identity, and Apache Druid analytics POCs. A former CTO/cofounder, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and open-source sensibilities (contributing algorithmic fixes to the Aho-Corasick library) to production-grade engineering. Based in Israel, he’s an “engineer, hacker, humanist” who thrives on translating complex requirements into resilient, efficient systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
English, Arabic, Hebrew
Github Skills (63)
zcash10
string-matching10
bitcoin10
matching10
cryptocurrency10
aho-corasick10
blockchain-network10
levenshtein-distance9
similarity9
wallet9
blockchain9
hardware-wallet9
bitpay9
microservices9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
commerceblock/pay-to-contract-protocol-specification
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 month
payethereumcontractblockchainsmart-contracts
commerceblock/token-sale-portal
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:89 commits, 5 PRs, 50 pushes in 6 months
token-saletokensale
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