Omar Syed
Co-Founder at Liberdus
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Syed is a seasoned founder and distributed-systems architect with 13+ years building highly scalable, fault-tolerant platforms and a multi-decade background in engineering from NASA and Yahoo to gaming and blockchain. He co-founded and leads projects (Shardus, Shardeum, Liberdus) focused on linearly sharded, permissionless ledgers that aim for millions of on-chain transactions per second and exabytes of state storage while preserving composability. A pragmatic engineer-visionary, he translated interests in AI and game strategy into inventing Arimaa and running the Arimaa Challenge, demonstrating a long-standing drive to push algorithmic limits. Omar couples deep protocol design experience with hands-on system simulations dating back to 2011, and pursues a broader mission of enabling a UBI funded by stable crypto as a path to eliminate poverty. Based in Plano, Texas, he blends academic rigor (MS EE, BS CompE) with entrepreneurial grit, routinely bridging research, specification, and production.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (57)
uniswap10
blockchain10
docker9
golang9
ethereum9
firefox8
go8
browser8
brave8
plug8
linux8
windows8
muon8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osyed/backup
Oct 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
Liberdus/web-client-v2
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 66 PRs in 3 months
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