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Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Alicante, Spain
Toptal member since February 10, 2025
Bio
Omar is a results-driven engineering leader who builds scalable platforms and optimizes business performance. With extensive experience in leading cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and driving innovation, he has successfully delivered solutions that enhanced efficiency and revenue growth. Omar's strategic mindset and problem-solving skills make him a valuable asset for any organization looking to scale and innovate.
Project Highlights
Google Maps Taxi Partner Integration
Launched a platform to integrate and manage 50+ taxi providers worldwide—including Uber, Lyft, Ola, Gojek, Grab, Gett, and MyTaxi—for the Google Maps taxi option.
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Launched the EU intellectual property filing service, including a complex back-office solution to handle trademark applications.
BI Solution for Lansweeper
Launched a powerful BI solution for Lansweeper's 20,000 customers and partners.
Expertise
- AWS IoT
- Agile
- Confluence
- Jira
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Software Design
- Team Leadership
Work Experience
Engineering Director
2023 - PRESENT
Lansweeper
- Spearheaded the development and deployment of cloud-native applications using AWS, Kubernetes, and Go, achieving a scalable platform able to handle nine terabytes of data.
- Designed and implemented scalable, fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, MongoDB, and ClickHouse for real-time data processing and analytics.
- Championed the adoption of Terraform and ArgoCD for seamless IaC and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 50%.
- Managed and mentored a team of 30 engineers, fostering professional growth and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Led seven cross-functional teams to deliver 13 projects, enhancing the company revenue by 30% YoY.
- Implemented an AI assistant to support customer queries.
Project Manager | Product Owner
2020 - 2023
Netcompany-Intrasoft
- Delivered four successful projects—solely handling the decision desktop, user area, back office, and front office—for the EUIPO.
- Managed complex software development across multiple platforms.
- Led four teams of 30 developers based in Greece and Spain.
- Drove the product vision, roadmap, and Scrum activities, including story creation, sprint breakdown, and sprint planning.
- Liaised between EUIPO, business analyst, quality assurance, and development teams.
- Engaged with 70+ stakeholders across multiple European Union agencies.
Technical Solution Consultant
2013 - 2019
- Analyzed the Google Maps taxi product. Produced several product requirements documents and the final product's UX design.
- Coordinated the work with five engineers, liaising with business owners and testing and monitoring development. Prepared briefings and presentations to VPs.
- Created and project-managed a platform to support the integration of customers and feed stats view and execute complex troubleshooting—dramatically reducing onboarding from 1.5 years to two weeks for the Google Maps taxi product.
- Wrote technical documentation to implement se2-geometry by Uber, Lyft, MyTaxi, Ola, Grab, Gojek, Gett, and 99Taxis to generate geo-areas where the taxis operate.
- Launched Lyft, MyTaxi, Ola, Grab, Gojek, Gett, BlaBlaCar, and 99Taxis in one month.
- Designed and managed the platform to support integrating thousands of customers and managing customer requests across all Waze products, including Connected Citizens, Global Events, Broadcasters, and Transport SDK.
- Handled the integration platform's UX design, onboarding, event management—including parking and roadblocks for sports events like the NFL and marathons—and data exchange between Waze and local authorities.
- Oversaw the Waze project with four engineers, liaising with business owners, testing and monitoring development, and preparing briefings and presentations.
Software Developer
2011 - 2013
- Implemented the system design and architecture of car insurance services to support Google Compare's real-time functionality.
- Built a comparison engine for comparing hundreds of insurers.
- Designed and implemented a database layer on top of Bigtable.
- Handled the UX design and implementation of the UK car insurance and UK travel insurance UI.
- Developed a log-saving framework, applying MapReduce jobs to extract data into several pipelines.
Software Developer
2009 - 2011
BeatThatQuote.com (acquired by Google)
- Designed and implemented a scalable system supporting thousands of real-time XML requests per hour and handling 100 gigabytes of data daily.
- Created a dashboard that tracks all events across all our customers.
- Developed a framework to self-document customers' feeds.
- Built an insurance comparison engine from scratch, comparing hundreds of insurance in under five seconds.
- Leveraged the Chef code to handle our distributed system.
- Increased our site's response time by 20% by implementing a caching solution.
- Implemented the entire insurance site's UI and various features requested by product managers.
- Enforced tools to monitor live events triggered by users and developed a monitoring system to notify product managers of anomalies.
- Grew overall revenue by 20% by implementing a business intelligence pipeline that produces statistics on daily user actions, enabling us to identify and address many customer web service issues.
Software Developer
2008 - 2008
London South Bank University
- Implemented an application to assign courses, units, students, and lecturers to available rooms, featuring a sophisticated classroom map for 20,000+ students and 3,000+ teaching staff.
- Enforced a student attendance monitoring system that automatically verifies whether a user joined the class.
- Executed a solution to reuse server disk space to run processes in the background.
Project History
Google Maps Taxi Partner Integration
Launched a platform to integrate and manage 50+ taxi providers worldwide—including Uber, Lyft, Ola, Gojek, Grab, Gett, and MyTaxi—for the Google Maps taxi option.
I led and managed the project for the Google Maps taxi customer solution, analyzing the taxi product and drafting detailed product requirements documents. I also designed and managed a platform to integrate customers, view feed stats, and troubleshoot complex issues.
The platform dramatically reduced onboarding time from 1.5 years—as experienced during our Uber integration—to just two weeks, enabling us to onboard 50+ car-sharing partners in six months. I handled UX design, coordinated with two engineers, liaised with business owners, and oversaw testing and monitoring, significantly improving operational efficiency.
The platform dramatically reduced onboarding time from 1.5 years—as experienced during our Uber integration—to just two weeks, enabling us to onboard 50+ car-sharing partners in six months. I handled UX design, coordinated with two engineers, liaised with business owners, and oversaw testing and monitoring, significantly improving operational efficiency.
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
https://www.euipo.europa.eu/enLaunched the EU intellectual property filing service, including a complex back-office solution to handle trademark applications.
I led the design and development of the EUIPO's front office, back office, and user area—a significant milestone in my career. As project manager and product owner, I was pivotal in delivering a comprehensive digital ecosystem that streamlined trademark and design application processes. I led the project from concept to execution, managing 30 engineers and aligning the needs of 70 stakeholders with technical feasibility while ensuring a seamless user experience.
The front office improved accessibility for applicants, the back office optimized internal workflows, and the user area empowered users with robust self-service tools. Today, this platform processes over 150,000 trademark applications and 50,000 design submissions yearly and is used by over 5,000 lawyers and 100,000 users, underscoring its transformative impact.
The front office improved accessibility for applicants, the back office optimized internal workflows, and the user area empowered users with robust self-service tools. Today, this platform processes over 150,000 trademark applications and 50,000 design submissions yearly and is used by over 5,000 lawyers and 100,000 users, underscoring its transformative impact.
BI Solution for Lansweeper
Launched a powerful BI solution for Lansweeper's 20,000 customers and partners.
I led the development of a BI solution for Lansweeper's IT asset management platform, a key achievement in driving data-driven decision-making for customers. I designed and led the development of a powerful analytics system that enabled users to slice and dice IT asset data, unlocking valuable insights.
The BI solution allowed organizations to track asset lifecycles, monitor software compliance, detect security vulnerabilities, optimize hardware utilization, and forecast IT budgets with precision. By integrating advanced filtering, interactive dashboards, and customizable reports, we provided IT teams with actionable intelligence to streamline operations and reduce costs. The enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities increased upsell revenue by 30% as customers leveraged deeper insights to expand platform usage.
The BI solution allowed organizations to track asset lifecycles, monitor software compliance, detect security vulnerabilities, optimize hardware utilization, and forecast IT budgets with precision. By integrating advanced filtering, interactive dashboards, and customizable reports, we provided IT teams with actionable intelligence to streamline operations and reduce costs. The enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities increased upsell revenue by 30% as customers leveraged deeper insights to expand platform usage.
Education
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming
London South Bank University - London, England
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Terraform, GoLand, NGINX, Chef, Git, PostgreSQL
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, UX Design
Platforms
AWS IoT
Other
JavaScript, Project Management, Leadership, Coaching, clickhouse, Engineering Management, Platform Engineering, Amazon EKS, Apache Kafka, React, Rust, PHP, Apache2, Java, HTML, CSS, Software Design, MySQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, Redis, jQuery, AngularJS, XML, SOAP, XPath, GWT, MapReduce, Product Management, Team Leadership, Product Owner, Team Management, Global Team Management, Roadmaps, Documentation, Presentations, Technical Documentation, Technical Design, Spring, CI/CD Pipelines, QA Testing, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis, SAFe 6, MongoDB, ClickHouse, APIs, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), gRPC, GraphQL, TypeScript, Node.js, Valkey, UX Research, Scrum of Scrums, Scrum Master, Charts, Web Components, OAuth 2, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), ClickUp, Argo CD, Backstage
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