Omar Sulehria is a Staff Software Engineer based in Denver with 14 years of experience building and scaling web and enterprise systems, currently advancing platform work at Handshake. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, having progressed from senior roles to staff responsibilities while mentoring early-career engineers and shaping cross-team practices. His background includes consultancy at ThoughtWorks and long-form product engineering at Rally, giving him both delivery rigor and adaptability across industries. Unusually for an engineer, he pairs a technical CS education with formal study in Japanese language and literature, reflecting a curiosity for culture and communication that informs his collaborative style. He’s focused on continuous learning and scaling leadership capabilities across multiple teams while keeping a practical, problem-solving approach to software design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature, Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature at University of Colorado at Boulder
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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Omar Sulehria - Staff Software Engineer at Handshake