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Omar Salama

@omarsalama1

Mobile and AI engineer at Niyyah building a retrieval-grounded answer pipeline and a privacy-first, fully on-device therapy app.

Egypt

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At Niyyah, I build the AI backend behind the app, including an agentic answer pipeline grounded in ranked sources and an evaluation harness that scores answer quality. I also shipped React Native chat features with streaming answers and inline source cards.

On OpenSpace, I fine-tuned Gemma-4 E2B with SFT and DPO, then shipped it in a privacy-first therapy companion that runs entirely on-device. I’ve also built mobile products at Keepoala and training-data and evaluation tooling at Turing.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

SDE II

Current

Niyyah

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Owns the AI backend behind Niyyah's app, including an agentic answer pipeline and evaluation harness. Built a runtime validation layer, architected multi-agent AI flows, and shipped user-facing chat features in the React Native app.

AI LLM React Native Python fastAPI Evaluation Multi Agent Systems Prompt Engineering Streaming Paywalls

Python Developer (LLM Training)

Turing

Jun 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Promoted from contributor to pod lead, guiding a 4-person pod for ~3 months. Built internal Jupyter tooling for parsing contribution exports and generating reports, and produced SFT training data for domain-specific model training.

Python Jupyter LLM SFT Data Analysis Team Leadership

Software Developer

Keepoala

May 2021 - Oct 2024 (3 years 5 months)

Grew from working student to core developer on a two-person mobile team. Shipped the consumer app (React Native) with features like voucher rewards, challenges, returns flow, and analytics, plus backend integrations and a partner analytics dashboard.

React Native Firebase Cloud Functions React R Shiny Analytics Deep Linking UI UX

Interview Engineer

Karat

Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 (5 months)

Delivered 10–15 structured technical interviews (coding, debugging, system design) against Karat's calibrated rubrics for enterprise clients. Re-engaged for a second stint in 2025.

Technical Interviewing Coding Debugging System Design

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Cairo University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

2017 - 2022

Grade: 83.9% (Very Good with honors)

Activities and societies: Graduation Project: NeuroGames (Grade: Excellent), an EEG brain-computer interface driving a VR game.

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, with a grade of 83.9% (Very Good with honors). Graduation project: NeuroGames, an EEG brain-computer interface driving a VR game, graded Excellent.