Omar Al Safi
About Omar Al Safi
Omar Al Safi is a Senior Software Engineer at Dremio, specializing in projects involving Apache Iceberg and the Dremio Arctic data lakehouse platform. He has extensive experience in software engineering, having worked with various companies and contributed to significant projects like Project Nessie and Apache Airflow.
Work at Dremio
Omar Al Safi has been employed at Dremio as a Senior Software Engineer since 2021. In this role, he has contributed to the development of Dremio Arctic, a data lakehouse platform that integrates data warehousing and data lake functionalities. His work focuses on projects utilizing Apache Iceberg, a high-performance format designed for large analytic tables.
Education and Expertise
Omar Al Safi holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Media Informatics from RWTH Aachen University, where he studied from 2014 to 2017. He also earned a Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) in Software Engineering from Multimedia University, completing his studies there from 2009 to 2012. His educational background supports his expertise in software engineering and data management.
Background
Omar Al Safi has a diverse professional background in software engineering. Before joining Dremio, he worked at Talend as an Open Source Software Engineer from 2019 to 2021. He also held positions at trivago, where he worked on user profiling and stream platform services from 2016 to 2019. His earlier experience includes roles at fedger, ServiceRocket, and Polaris Net Sdn. Bhd. in various software engineering capacities.
Contributions to Apache Software Foundation
Since 2019, Omar Al Safi has been involved with The Apache Software Foundation as an Apache Camel PMC/Committer. He has contributed to several projects, including Project Nessie, which aims to provide a Git-like experience for data versioning. His work also includes projects that utilize Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform.
Early Career Experience
Omar Al Safi began his career as a Computer Programming Tutor at Multimedia University in 2011. He later worked as a working student at fedger from 2015 to 2016. His early roles provided him with foundational experience in software engineering and tutoring, setting the stage for his subsequent career advancements.