omranjamal.me

Known for successfully navigating unknown waters in tech by building unproven ideas on untested platforms using the good old text-editors and terminals.

• Fast learner.
• Product engineer who thinks a lot about the customer, but also the nitty gritty of system architecture.
• Recently acquired a new obsession for UX (might starting identifying as a frontend engineer).

Contact

🧑🏽‍💻 github.com/omranjamal

✉️ [email protected]

🔗 linkedin.com/in/omranjamal

📞 +8801843129105

🐦 @OmranJamal

🏠 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fluent in ... English 🇬🇧 Bangla 🇧🇩 TypeScript 🤖

Work

🚴‍♀️ Pathao

Product Engineering Lead [Nov 2024 --> )

One of the biggest ride-sharing and logistics company in our country. Trying to engineer interesting ways to drive growth for our end to end logistics business.

Highlights

• Currently: Leading a team of 9 engineers and designers to build the future of e-commerce in Bangladesh that is friendly for the next million buyers (the young people starting to participate in commerce).
• Improved surge pricing calculation pipeline performance by utilizing TimescaleDB’s time-series forecasting features.

💪 FringeCore_

CTO [Jun 2023 - Nov 2024)

Lead an engineering team of 18 to tackle large enterprise’s most challenging problems in business and operations.

Highlights

• Leading team to create products that leverages machine vision to identify out-of-stock items in shops and instruct sales teams to restock efficiently.
• Lead development of a factory’s ERP with realtime observability and 3D visualizations of events in the factory.
• Lead development of a remote administration tool (similar to TeamViewer) for Android devices.

🌏 Bonton Connect

Co-Founder CTO [Jan 2020 - June 2023]

Discontinued; Startup; Raised 200k USD.

Internet connectivity is was not a solved problem in Bangladesh so I put all my past experiences together to solve it via WiFi sharing.

Highlights

• Fully offline tower discovery.
• Off-the-shelf router automation (built a Linux distro based on OpenWRT)
• ~29,000 people sharing internet.

Technologies

typescript openwrt linux trpc timescale-db RADIUS lua android networking react-native kotlin redis

👁️ Gaze

Software Engineer [Jun 2019 - Jan 2020]

Enterprise machine vision applications company. Initially worked on client-side ML visualizations; Later responsible for building & maintaining high throughput media streaming pipelines from camera

to end-user.

Highlights

• Employed techniques to fully utilize Intel On-board graphics to reduce CPU bottlenecks. (leveraging ffmpeg and gstreamer)
• Reduced latency using frame buffering and dynamic batching techniques.

Technologies

golang python3 ffmpeg gstreamer opencv nodejs reactjs redux mongo gcp

🚲 Jobike

Software Engineer [Jan 2018 - Jun 2019]

Bike sharing company. Scan QR to unlock, leave anywhere. I was mainly in charge of ...

• Building and maintaining a highly efficient monolithic application framework that the main app and real time fleet management system is based on; Leveraging Python’s multi-paradigm capabilities.
• Reversing engineering & improving low level TCP communication from IoT bike locks to the server.

Highlights

My work (the jolt framework) successfully reduced Jobike’s monthly AWS bills by 92%.

Technologies

python3 asyncio redis postgres nodejs aws reactjs react-native

🩸 Blood Bot

CTO [Feb 2017 - Jun 2019]

A chat-bot passion project built from the ground up; it was briefly the most trusted way to be connected to a blood donor online in emergencies. Built custom GeoSpatial indexing solutions and implemented NLP approaches to process Bengali, English & Banglish (a colloquial mix of the two languages spelled phonetically)

Highlights

• ~25,000 donors
• ~5,000 lives saved
• 10min average time to completion
• No mobile data or smartphone requirements

Technologies

typescript redis mongo neo4j node aws

🐝 Techbeeo

Engineering Intern [Jan 2015 - Jan 2016]

First job; Helped develop database designs and tooling for cloud based ERP systems.

Technologies

php laravel mysql

Side Projects

I have realized I simply cannot stop myself from building things, so I’ve been building products on the side while working at Pathao

Open Source Work