The American University in Cairo

iOS Engineer at Spotify

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Spotify

iOS Engineer

- Collaborating with a large network of teams to deliver quality features for the ABN Amro banking mobile application
-  Ensuring testability, maintainability & scalability of project vis a vis decisions taken regarding architectural, design, testing, CI/CD patterns and way of working.
-  Coordinating and facilitating large scale refactor  endeavors by creating automatic tools to accelerate the process followed up by orchestrating the remainder of the manual work.

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

iOS Developer via IceMobile

- Revamping, setting architectural precedents and improving the performance of the iOS, and secondarily, the Android Jumbo food retail mobile applications.
- Updating and maintaining code-style guides, as well as regularly reviewing code to help guard the quality of the code base.
- Assisting in creating libraries to decrease reliance on third-party code.
- Integrating Firebase, Dynatrace, Crashlytics amongst other analytics tools to help analyze usages and issues of the application.
- Employing creative scrum techniques during rituals to help garner team trust and respect to create an effective agile environment.

iOS Developer, Scrum Master

- Appointed as TA for the Operating Systems course, I'm responsible for answering relevant course questions, grading projects and assignments, and proctoring the students' during their examinations.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

- Developing native iOS applications in both Swift & Objective-C, as well as relevant utility/support desktop software.

-       Served as the support communication focal point between the company and the client.

- Gaining experience in cognitive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems using Watson and Datacap.

- Quickly adapted to large scale projects, thusly maintained, revamped, and updated both enterprise level and legacy iOS applications.

Mobile Application Developer

- Preparing students for standardized exams, such as the SATs & ACTs, both by teaching academic concepts, and introducing them to standardized test-taking strategies

-      Taught widely varying age-groups of students various academic concepts in a broad range of academic fields.

Top Choice Admissions

Academic Tutor

- Studied artifacts of the software engineering process, and formulated software requirement documents, code, test cases, use cases and system design in accordance to IBM’s standards.

Quality Assurance & Testing Trainee

- Started-up software company alongside two colleagues, whose flagship product was spun off from the AUC Maps project – a native mobile application which served as an indoor & outdoor navigation system for the university.
- Utilized the indoor/outdoor navigation engine and applied it to other maps for other clients.

Windrose LLC.

Technical Lead

- Formulated a compiler to collect UML diagrams including state machines, classes, and interfaces, and convert them into SAL to arithmetically prove the validity of system models.

Mentor Graphics

Engineering Intern

- Developed various Android applications & web APIs for private entities, as well as public entities. Examples of the different kinds of apps I've worked on, or created, are:

- The management application for the club IGCE in the American University in Cairo (AUC). (Android/iOS)
- Two different social network applications with two extremely different premises (one for humans, and one for pet mating)
-  A crowd-sourcing based application that gives both real-time crowdedness & quality ratings to restaurants around Cairo.
-      A video-player application that would securely encrypt & decrypt each video per session, and ensure that any given account can have a certain amount of simultaneous active sessions.
-  A proof of concept door/doorknob detector application, that also doubled as business card reader/parser.

Omar Khafagi

Omar Khafagi