Omari Nyarko

Engineer • Content Creator • Teacher

Hello, I'm Omari, a software engineer at BigOrders and a recent Computer Engineering graduate from Calvin University.

I'm passionate about learning, playing basketball, and running. I also share my knowledge through Leetcode tutorials on my YouTube channel.

I'd love to connect with you, feel free to reach out!

Resume

Education

Calvin University – Grand Rapids, MI

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Relevant coursework: Applied Computing, Intro to Data Structures, Protocol Development, Intro to Engineering Design, Networking, Machine Learning, Network Security, Cloud Security, NLP, Object Oriented Programming, Distributed Computing Systems, Web Technologies, Cloud Computing

Skills & Certifications

Languages

Python, Java, Kotlin, C++

Technologies

Github, Jira, Apache Cassandra, AWS, Linus, Kafka, NET, Django, TensorFlow, React, Terraform, TestNG, XCode, Regex, Docker, MySQL

Soft Skills

Product Management, Entrepreneurial skills, Communication, Leadership

Experience

Open Source Contributor

Zulip Open Source Project | Remote

August 2024 – Present

  • Contributed to core functionality by implementing efficient caching strategies, leading to a 25% reduction in server response times for message delivery.
  • Collaborated with community maintainers to resolve complex concurrency issues, improving system stability and reducing error rates by 15% across high-load deployments.

Software Developer

Big Orders | Remote

March 2024 – Present

  • Developed a unique pin code generation system for new orders, enabling users to share order sessions with others and increasing group order participation by 30%.
  • Built and implemented a web scraping algorithm that retrieves menu URLs from restaurant pages, reducing time to access menus by 40% and improving user satisfaction scores by 25% through streamlined restaurant selection.

Teaching Assistant - Computer Organization & Architecture

Calvin University Engineering Department | Grand Rapids, MI

September 2023 – December 2023

  • Assisted over 25 students in understanding intricate concepts of computer organization, architecture, and digital logic circuits.
  • Conducted bi-weekly post-lab office hours addressing an average of 10+ students queries per session, enhancing their grasp on assembly-code level debugging and CAD tool utilization.
  • Collaborated with Professors to develop and refine lab exercises, resulting in a 12% increase in average lab performance.
  • Facilitated hands-on lab sessions, guiding students in the design, build, and test phases of digital hardware, leading to 95% of students successfully executing their lab projects.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services | Bellevue, WA

May 2023 – August 2023

  • Developed a throttling mechanism to ensure that the Amazon Keyspaces Sidecar service never browns out resulting in 100% availability of the service across the team's distributed systems.
  • Implemented a request classification metric to identify throttled request types for subsequent retry during periods of reduced service load, yielding a 17% improvement in customer satisfaction.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services | Bellevue, WA

May 2022 – August 2022

  • Developed Integration tests to run against Apache Cassandra and Amazon Keyspaces to put a path forward to full compatibility testing and improving test coverage by 30%.
  • Designed and programmed combinations of queries to run against Apache Cassandra and Amazon Keyspaces to uncover compatibility gaps, reducing troubleshooting time by 20% and enabling faster decision-making in feature development.

Projects

Interactive Skill Map

Explore my technical landscape and project relationships through this interactive visualization.