Omar Abdelbadie
Technical Product Manager - Data Infrastructure & ML
About
Thriving in the messy ambiguity of interpersonal communications, I embrace the challenge of coordinating diverse teams, unlocking the alchemy that emerges when individuals are fully aligned. From architecting data pipelines to fostering shared language, I'm driven to lead projects that harness the untapped potential of teams, ensuring impactful products across Data Platforms, AI, MLOps, and LLMOps.
Work Experience
Senior Data Engineer
Joining during a period of high attrition, I proactivley sought to become the 'glue' aligning stakeholders across OneLogin, amplifying my impact beyond technical expertise in ML. From managing microservices to spearheading company-wide process improvements, I earned the trust of leadership by fostering collaboration and initiating difficult conversations.
Highlights
- Solely managed a ML Account Takeover Protection microservices suite, ensuring consistent performance in challenging conditions.
- Collaborated effectively with Ops team to optimize AWS Elasticsearch, significantly reducing costs without compromising service quality.
- Authored a whitepaper on the value of a Unified Identity Platform, IAM, and Zero-Trust Architecture.
- Championed process improvements embraced company-wide, fostering team efficiency through effective communication and leadership.
- Successfully navigated cross-functional conversations, aligning stakeholders and improving clarity in the Product Org.
Software Engineer II
Instilled a love of test-driven development, actionable metrics, and DevOps ownership under our mission-driven, transparent leadership (heavily ex-Amazon)
Highlights
- Led the design and development of a new Order Management System feature, unlocking new mid-complexity customers with over 70,000 orders per month
- Building and designing features for a rapidly growing product / customer base
- Full-stack duties spanning a tech stack of Typescript, Ruby, and Scala
- Infrastructure-as-code, microservice architecture, clean API design
Research SDE in AI
I successfully transitioned from development to a data-science focused role. I supported my team of talented data scientists by handling infrastructure, integration, and frontend tasks. Under Chief Scientist Steve's leadership, we flourished in a creative and enjoyable environment, shielded from upper management politics.
Highlights
- Optimized 4 AI Azure Kubernetes Microservices by implementing asynchronous calls and reducing image sizes by >70%
- Streamlined customer ETL workflows by building a text annotation dashboard for custom Named Entity Recognition
- Led research and design of API for External UI Integration feature
- Delivered first-in-class training material for Top Oil Company on proprietary data modeling platform
General Assembly
Seattle, WA
November 2018 – February 2019
Data Science Tutor
Highlights
- Coached 4 students through 12 weeks of homework/labs/projects in Data Science (scikit-learn, Tensorflow, spaCy), Engineering (Spark, web-scraping, AWS) and Visualization (Tableau, Seaborn).
- Facilitated a 0% dropout rate and successful placement into Data Science roles.
Awards
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June 2013
University of Washington Honors Program
College & Departmental Honors
Computational Neuroscience Training Program | Thesis (UW VisCog Lab): Attention and the Pupillary Light Response
Volunteer
Web and Data Instructor
Mentored and tutored formerly incarcerated men and women to enter the tech industry.
Contact
Seattle, Washington US
Education
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2009 2013
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science
Neurobiology; Applied Math; Japanese
Grade: 3.7
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2018 2018
General Assembly
Data Science Immersive
Skills
Kubernetes
advanced
CI/CD
intermediate
Github Actions
Gitlab CI
OpenAPI
advanced
Python
advanced
Keras
Langchain
Streamlit
Node.js
advanced
Typescript
React.js
AWS
advanced
Lambda
Step Functions
SNS/SQS
DynamoDB
OpenSearch
API Gateway
IAM
EKS
Metrics
advanced
Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
NewRelic
OpenTelemetry
Publications
Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: The Efficacy and Mechanisms of Cognitive Enhancement
Grey Matters: UW Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
31 October 2013
An in-depth look at three effective methods of cognitive enhancement- meditation, medication, and brain-computer interfaces