Omar Tawfik
Senior Compiler Engineer at Nomic Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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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)
benchmark10
lexer10
low-level10
language-service10
metadata10
csproj10
language-design10
visual-studio10
cpp10
esoteric-programming-language10
simplify10
grammars10
napi10
cps10
fsproj10
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
sb/smallbasic-editor
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Home to the Small Basic editor (beta)
Contributions:1 review, 85 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 3 months
editor
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