Omar Jaber

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States26 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Led teams of over 400 engineers in large-scale initiatives.
Recipient of the 2021 President Award for engineering excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Leader in SaaS with extensive experience in cloud solutions and data management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringCloud ComputingData Storage SolutionsDatabase Management

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesBlackberryC#C++Capacity PlanningCloud Computing IaaSDistributed SystemsEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsGPS NavigationLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMicrosoft Visual Studio C++Multithreading

About

Seasoned Principle Lead Architect and Senior Engineering Manager with over 20 years of experience providing enterprise solutions and information systems leadership in a number of industries leading teams in excess of hundreds engineers. Extensive experience in technical project and program management, including leading multidisciplinary teams, driving large-scale initiatives, overseeing budgets and timelines, and providing IT infrastructure guidance to deliver world-class software solutions. Continually exceeds expectations by creating valuable partnerships and works well with people at all levels of the organization.

Experience

Zscaler

Distinguished Software Engineering Architect

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Seasoned Distinguished Software Engineering Architect and Senior Engineering Manager with over 24 years of experience providing enterprise solutions and information systems leadership in a number of industries leading teams in excess of 400 engineers. Extensive experience in technical project and program management including leading multidisciplinary teams, driving large-scale initiatives, overseeing budgets and timelines, and providing IT infrastructure guidance to deliver world-class software solutions. Continually exceeds expectations by creating valuable partnerships and works well with people at all levels of the organization.

Software DevelopmentC++Software EngineeringAgile MethodologiesMicrosoft Visual Studio C++Linux+21

Salesforce

2 roles

Software Engineering Principal Architect

Promoted

May 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Actively supporting a $3 Billion B2C marketing platform providing world-class engagement across various digital channels.
Leading the engagement engineering team for design and architecture while helping guide EVP fiscal roadmap planning.
Providing subject matter technical leadership and hands-on execution for 10 software architects and 400 engineers.
Publishing annual investments roadmap to meet product scale, availability, cost, growth, and driving innovation.
Introducing standard design patterns across the organization and creating weekly design and architecture reviews.
Leading efforts across all engineering teams and completing and deploying more than 600 designs to production.
Implementing workflow horizontal scale adaptive algorithms to monitor system loads and maintain peak performance.
Scaling throughput of engagement messages by a minimum factor of 10 and reducing cost and IOPs by over 40%.
Leading over 120 engineers to transform MC Engagement from on-premises to public cloud Hyperforce on AWS.
Deploying new platform in Japan, Australia, US, and India while simultaneously reducing cost-to-serve by 55%.
Transforming platform data tier from a relational SQL Server-centric to a multi-tier platform to support future growth.
Leading FY21 and FY23 CyberWeek engineering execution with 34% and 25% growth and 99.99% availability.
Driving product scale, availability, cost, and future growth and being the recipient of the 2021 President Award.

Software DevelopmentC++Software EngineeringAgile MethodologiesCloud ComputingAWS

Software Engineering Architect

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Dropbox

Staff Software Engineer, Storage Technical Lead

Mar 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Led a team of software and support engineers to develop and maintain the 700M customer data storage solution.
· Developed storage capacity model and hardware rotation plan for 3 exabytes of storage deployed across multiple data centers.
· Provided monthly reporting to track storage reliability, availability, durability, capacity, incidents, and paging hours.
· Created the weekly architecture roadmap, a live process to track current and future proposed work for the leadership team.
· Supported planning reviews, roadmap monthly OKR reviews, and status updates to leadership on current progress.
· Partnered with hardware team and vendors to design storage-specific acceptance tests and influence their roadmap.
· Led design, development, and rollout of multiple storage critical features without impacting performance or durability.
· Migrated customers' data across data centers with zero downtime and no data or compression savings loss.
· Improved data corruption detection and reporting.

Software DevelopmentData Storage SolutionsCapacity Planning