Summary
Shahrukh Omar is a seasoned software leader and current CTO based in Dubai with nine years of hands-on experience designing, building and operating scalable web applications and complex APIs. He excels at aligning engineering organisations with company strategy, fostering a culture of experimentation, ownership and continuous process refinement while empowering distributed teams across the UAE, India and Sri Lanka. Equally comfortable in the codebase, Shahrukh’s background as a full-time developer informs his focus on modern JavaScript frameworks, UI/UX and single-page applications, and he has a track record of delivering production-grade solutions end-to-end. Outside product engineering he experiments with embedded systems and hardware-software interfaces and has a decade-long commitment to volunteer UX/design consulting, reflecting a practical, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors (Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors (Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of Surrey