Omar A. Barakat

Technical Product Manager · Agile Coach

10 years across tech, management, and training. I build products and the systems behind them, fix ones that have broken down, design for hard problems with no obvious answer, and transform how organizations ship.

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10 years across tech, management, and training — 10+ products shipped, 5+ companies transformed, 2 startups cofounded, and a Udemy agile course with nearly 5,000 students. The throughline is systems thinking: I find the system producing an outcome and rebuild it.

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What I do

Build

From zero to certified payment gateway — products that scale.

Fix

Diagnosing root cause and turning product debt into momentum.

Design

Data-led product thinking for AI-native features.

Transform & Teach

Embedding agile at the organization level, not just the team.

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Build

Building Easykash Gate

Extracted payments into a dedicated infrastructure layer and shipped it to production during the COVID lockdown — payment issues fell ~70% in three months.

Payment issues ↓ ~70% in 3 months · ~95% within a year Infrastructure extraction & constraint-driven delivery

Fix

Reversing Customer Churn at RentAll

Diagnosed churn as a process-and-trust problem — not just bugs — and rebuilt both; churn fell to zero in ~4 months and reversed into growth by ~6.

Churn → zero in ~4 months, then growth Root-cause product thinking

Design

Designing a Credit-Scoring Model Where Credit History Doesn't Exist

Solved the cold-start problem of lending in a market with no credit bureau — risk-contained bootstrapping and a self-improving, consent-first scoring model.

Cold-start scoring from zero · self-improving cohort model Data-led product design for hard problems

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Portfolio

Six case studies across four disciplines.

Résumé

Full work history, credentials, and skills.

Cover Letter

My story in my own words.

About

Career arc, philosophy, and context.

Teaching

Beginner's Guide to Agile Software Transformation — nearly 5,000 students since 2020.

Contact

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Get in touch

I'm always open to interesting product conversations. Whether you have a role in mind, a product challenge to discuss, or just want to connect — reach out.

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