# Omar AlSughayer > Software Engineer at Meta | MiSK Fellow | Qimam Fellow | Project1932 Fellow Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/omaralsughayer Computer Scientist turned Meta Software Engineer with a soft spot for Privacy Engineering in ML space. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States Designed and spearheaded the implementation of an automatic memory management tool in python to detect and remedy leakage in the company’s AI and Machine Learning assets leading to the reallocation of up to 30% of users’ storage space. Built a web crawler in Python to scout for leaked user data and respond appropriately, delivered and deployed in half the expected time. Implemented a tool inside the Facebook Android app that allows users to manage their inventory and see their changes reflected in real-time while handling racing issues when multiple users concurrently modify the same inventory. Scaled up Instagram feed’s priority algorithm for faster resolve time and higher impressions. ### Project1932 Fellow @ Project1932 Jan 2022 – Present | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ### McKinsey & Co. Qimam Fellow @ Qimam Fellowship برنامج قمم Jan 2021 – Present | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States Jointly designed, constructed, and deployed a highly scalable, end-to-end encrypted audio and video broadcasting system using Java and Kotlin for Android implementation. ### Machine Learning Researcher @ Duke University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States Researched different novel regression and continuous methods for patching missing or inaccurate entries in Machine Learning training databases. ### MisK Foundation Graduate Fellow @ Misk Foundation Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States ### Lead Software Engineer @ Saudi Aramco Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Designed and coded an infra tool in Java to automate redirecting and distributing the network traffic to avoid bottleneck issues and achieve the best performance, allowing for better communication and an increased speed. Lead cross-functional efforts to design and create a unified entry point, and pricing and billing tool serving all possible pricing agreement models in deals with the company’s third party customers and joint ventures. Initiated the construction of a tool automating the restructuring of the company’s firewalls in response to the American-Chinese trade war, saving up to 10,000 engineering hours. ### Software Engineer @ Saudi Aramco Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Implemented a dashboard to correlate historical phishing attempts data and best detection software configuration. Created an internal chatbot to help answer proponent questions, resolve their cases automatically, and assign requests automatically to the responsible operator. Project lowered false positives and false negatives rates by 12% and 17% respectively while simultaneously speeding up the process by a factor of 2.56 compared to the historical performance. Built a highly scalable tool which allows clients to search, access, and modify selected and isolated sections of a database warehouse through a user-friendly UI whilst ensuring access parameters are not overstepped. ### Cofounder and Head Coach at the International Olympiad of Informatics @ Mawhiba Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 Recruited and coordinated with international competition winners to aid in coaching the Saudi team for the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI). Designed and administrated talent-scouting tests as well as a four-and-a-half month training program built upon historical records of past competitions as well as outside material. Efforts led the country’s team to succeed in scoring a medal in its first ever international participation. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Aramco Trading Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Houston, Texas, United States Wrote a Java model that tracked users’ avatars activity, using it to train an NPC within the same environment, and displayed the results in real-time while handling crowding issues. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Duke University ### Bachelor's of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science University of Washington ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omarsughayer --- Source: https://flows.cv/omaralsughayer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/omaralsughayer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11