Osman Currim
Director, Systems Engineering at WestJet
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOsman Currim is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building highly scalable systems, databases, and web platforms, now serving as Director of Systems Engineering at WestJet. He has progressed through senior engineering and director roles across major Canadian tech and telecom firms including Tangerine, Rogers, Wealthsimple and GroupBy, blending hands-on development with strategic platform and developer-tooling leadership. Osman’s background in analytics and data science—dating to internships at Facebook and early roles at BlackBerry—gives him a data-informed approach to designing core services and frictionless developer experiences. He consistently bridges server and database architecture with practical delivery, driving reliability at scale in both product and infrastructure domains. Based in Toronto with a BASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, he brings enterprise-grade execution tempered by startup-era agility. An understated thread through his career is a focus on developer productivity: building tools and services that let teams move faster without sacrificing robustness.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering, BASc Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
firmware10
bluetooth10
elasticsearch10
wireless10
keyboard10
search-engine10
java10
nrf5210
opensearch9
restful9
java-api9
zephyr9
api8
insurance7
client-library7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
osman/elasticsearch-kubernetes
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
groupby/chillastic
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Re-index multiple elasticsearch indices, save your progress, mutate your data in-flight. Useful for large data transformations for things like logging in the ELK stack
Contributions:20 releases, 26 PRs, 165 pushes in 2 years 4 months
flightindiceselkindexdata-transformations
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