Umar Alkafaween
Senior Software Engineer Devops at Al Jazeera Media Network
Amman, Amman, Jordan
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Top SchoolUmar Alkafaween is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building high-performance back-end systems and DevOps solutions, currently at Al Jazeera Media Network. He has a strong track record in Ruby on Rails APIs, scaling web platforms (notably multi-million-user APIs and dramatic performance gains at Edraak), and integrating payment and delivery services for e-commerce. Umar pairs practical optimization skills—achieving massive load and latency improvements—with teaching experience, having lectured computer science and supervised ACM student activities. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and diverse roles from startups to media institutes, giving him both academic depth and production grit. He prioritizes improving the user and learner experience through thoughtful UX fixes and careful performance benchmarking. Colleagues know him as a no-buzz-words engineer who prefers measurable impact over jargon.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Princess Sumaya University for TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Arabic, English, Italian
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Github Skills (49)
rails9
service-management9
tango9
python8
sidekiq8
ruby7
jenkins6
relational-databases6
jruby6
database6
gson6
database-design6
android6
edx6
graph6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
umar221b/arrangeable
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Arrangeable provides an organized and seamless way to sort your ActiveRecord objects by different attributes.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 17 commits in 2 years 5 months
railsrubyseamlessactiverecordorganized
umar221b/Autolab
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments.
Contributions:19 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
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