Omar Tawfik
Senior Compiler Engineer at Nomic Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Tawfik is a Senior Compiler Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building compilers, language services, developer tools, and web apps across both open source and enterprise settings. He has contributed to the .NET compiler ecosystem at Microsoft and improved developer productivity on Facebook’s Code & Language Experience team, and now designs Language Analysis APIs for Ethereum and Solidity at Nomic Foundation. Omar combines low-level compiler expertise with practical tooling instincts—shipping developer-facing systems used by thousands—and enjoys exploring new ideas through experimentation. His background spans production services and research-grade language work, reflecting a rare blend of pragmatism and deep language/tooling craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Science at Ain Shams UniversityHigh School, General, High School, General at Ola High School, Nasr City, Cairo
Arabic, English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
parser10
decompiler10
lexer10
decompile10
csproj10
code-analysis10
language-design10
visual-studio10
pdb10
netcore10
fsharp10
cpp10
markdown10
javascript10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
OmarTawfik/vscode
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
NomicFoundation/slang
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Solidity compiler tooling by @NomicFoundation
Contributions:4 releases, 2188 reviews, 161 commits in 1 year
compilersolidity
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