Omer Cansizoglu
Founder at SpatialOps LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmer Cansizoglu is a founder and former AR engineering leader with 12 years of experience building secure, production-grade software across startups and major tech firms. He led engineering teams at Snap on next-generation Spectacles and contributed core authentication functionality to Microsoft's Azure AD libraries, demonstrating a blend of applied AR, backend, and security expertise. His work spans real-time systems, payments, and 3D design tools—from ATM transaction management to lattice-structure modeling and research-grade finite element analysis. Now leading SpatialOps, he explores how AR, AI, and robotics can convert on-the-job human expertise into reusable, intelligent workflows for industrial teams. With a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering and strategic training from MIT Sloan, he combines rigorous research instincts with practical product and engineering leadership. An early contributor to foundational Azure AD libraries, he brings both low-level engineering chops and a systems view for scaling complex, multidisciplinary solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering, PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityExecutive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBS Industrial Engineering, BS Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
lib10
net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
azure-active-directory10
security10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
xml10
csharp10
oauth10
android-intent9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-js
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 149 commits, 32 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Omer's initial commit introduced the core files for the Azure Active Directory library for JavaScript. The changes include the foundation of the library's functionality including methods like login, acquireToken, and getUser. These methods suggest this developer was focused on creating the core authentication and authorization logic, likely to support the use of tokens and user verification.
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-dotnet
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
ADAL authentication libraries for .net
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:38 commits, 17 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Omer primarily focused on enhancing the security and robustness of the ADAL authentication libraries. Their contributions include escaping XML characters within password fields to prevent vulnerabilities, writing unit tests to verify the correct XML formatting, and updating the library version. They worked on multiple files within the codebase to ensure that special characters in passwords were correctly handled.
dotnetauthenticationadalazure-ad-b2cmsal
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