Omari Halford
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Engineer and Developer
Raleigh, NC, United States
Toptal member since March 13, 2025
Omari is a highly analytical and detail-oriented full-stack software engineer. His background includes managing the full software development lifecycle from concept through delivery of next-generation, cost-effective, high-performance technology applications and solutions. Senior leadership recognizes Omari for his tenacity in gracefully handling the dynamics of a challenging and rapidly changing environment.
Portfolio
Experience
- GitHub - 10 years
- Material UI - 6 years
- Node.js - 6 years
- React - 6 years
- TypeScript - 6 years
- HTML - 6 years
- CSS - 6 years
- Agile Software Development - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Material UI, Spring Boot, Go, Node.js
The most amazing...
...thing I've contributed to was the adaptive audio feature for Google Meet, which auto-detects audio feedback from nearby devices and adjusts it to one input.
Work Experience
Full-stack Engineer L3
- Operated in a large team spread across countries for the feature development of Google’s video conferencing web application.
- Worked with a proprietary monorepo environment with experiment-driven integration and release cycles.
- Contributed to large-scale projects made available to consumers and business conferencing.
- Leveraged MVC architecture and Google Closure Tools to design and implement UI components for new features.
- Engineered experiment flags to facilitate continuous integration and optimize feature deployment while tracking user metrics.
- Played a key role in the end-to-end development of Google Meet’s adaptive audio feature, contributing to the front-end and API development for audio feedback detection.
- Designed and maintained a dynamic framework for managing video tile layouts, ensuring control addition and overflow handling.
- Engaged in several company-wide projects to refactor old UI components to modern Material UI standards.
Full-stack Engineer
Novetta Solutions LLC
- Used Cesium.js to visualize and store user-created data on the globe.
- Refactored old UI components from Ext JS to React and Redux and created new UI components using React Hooks and Material UI.
- Created new API endpoints for retrieving and manipulating Postgres data.
- Fixed bugs and optimized old code for a large repository.
- Operated in a large team spread across states to produce apps used by special forces and the conventional army.
- Worked with test-driven development using unit tests, CircleCI, and SonarQube for quality assurance and minimal technical debt.
- Contributed software engineering expertise in the development of products through the software lifecycle.
Experience
Vistory
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Game Development
Full Sail University - Winter Park, FL, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Cesium.js, Google Closure, API Development
Tools
GitHub, Trello, Jenkins, CircleCI, SonarQube, Google Meet, Canvas 2D
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Go, C#, C++, GraphQL, SCSS
Frameworks
Material UI, Spring Boot, Ext JS, Redux
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, UI Design, DevOps, Model View Controller (MVC), Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing
Platforms
Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora, Kubernetes, Docker
Storage
PostgreSQL, Google Cloud
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Google, 3D Games, Rendering, RHEL, Game Development, Software Development, Full-stack, Full-stack Development, Software Engineering, Front-end, Front-end Development, APIs, Back-end, Back-end Development, Monorepos, React Hooks, Quality Assurance (QA), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
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