I’m Omer Dawelbeit. My passion for computers and programming started as a hobby almost 3 decades ago when I started learning GW-BASIC, FORTRAN, Borland Pascal, Delphi and C++. This passion has evolved over the years to cover Full-stack software development, Web and Mobile technologies, Cloud Computing, Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning.

In addition to technology I’m also passionate about people development, community building, mentoring and building effective high performance teams. My approach to leadership, building things and solving problems is highly logical and grounded in both knowledge and experience. My quest for knowledge is the reason I’ve pursed academic qualifications (e.g. Masters and PhD) and professional certifications.

Currently I work as a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. I work with public sector customers on their strategic initiatives, helping them with cloud adoption and architecting their solutions on AWS. Prior to joining AWS, I worked for McKinsey and Company, where I led large digital transformations in government and banking in the UK, GCC and South East Asia. I’ve 20+ years of experience leading technology on large digital transformations for customers of all sizes across multiple verticals and geographies. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Reading in the UK.

Academic Publications

• Efficient Dictionary Compression for Processing RDF Big Data Using Google BigQuery, Omer Dawelbeit and Rachel McCrindle. 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington, USA
• CloudEx, A Novel Cloud-based Task Execution Framework, Omer Dawelbeit and Rachel McCrindle, 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Workshops: Fifth International
  Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (GC16
  Workshops CCSNA), Washington, USA
• A Novel Cloud Based Elastic Framework for Big Data Preprocessing, Omer Dawelbeit and Rachel McCrindle, Proceeding of the Sixth Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference 2014 (CEEC’14), IEEE

Open source projects:

I was at some point the contributor and maintainer of the following open source projects:

• ECARF, Elastic cloud based reasoning framework for the Semantic Web, http://ecarf.io
• CloudEx, A generic elastic cloud based framework for the execution of embarrassingly parallel tasks. http://cloudex.io.
• Appstart, Graphviz-Server, etc… more projects on GitHub

Developer community (2015 – 2021):

I was a Google Developer Expert for Cloud and was also the co-organizer for the Reading and Thames Valley Google Developers Group. I have grown the group through technical community engagement and collaboration. I enjoy mentoring & inspiring others on digital technologies, sharing knowledge through open source code samples, presentations and blog posts. Below is a brief summary of my past community engagements.

Community Groups

• 2017 – 2021 – Co-organiser of the Google Developer Group Cloud Emirates
• 2015 – 2016 – Co-organiser of the Reading & Thames Valley Google Developer Group

Events Timeline

• 2017 – 2019 – Various Google Cloud talks and roadshows in Saudi, UAE, Kuwait and Algeria. Various visits to Google Cloud Next Conferences and GDE Summits
• 23rd Sep 2017 – Talk & Codelab – Introduction to Google Cloud Platform – Google Developer Roadshow Cairo. Smart Village Cairo, Egypt
• 6th Sep 2017 – Training – Attending the Sprint Master Academy, Krakow Poland.
• 5th Sep 2017 – Community – Attending Google Developer Days Europe in Krakow, Poland. Helping with Cloud Platform office hours.
• 4th Sep 2017 – GDE Community – Attending the Google Developers Expert Summit in Krakow, Poland.
• 22nd Aug 2017 – Talk – Introduction to Google Cloud – GDG Cloud Emirates. Dubai Internet City.
• 17th Jul 2017 – Community – Co-organiser of GDG Cloud Emirates. UAE
• 22nd Apr 2017 – Talk – Introduction to Google Cloud – GDG Jeddah in Umm Al Qura University in Mekkah, Saudi Arabia.
• 8th Dec 2016 – Conference – Presenting a paper titled ‘Efficient Dictionary Compression for Processing RDF Big Data Using Google BigQuery‘ at the IEEE Globecom 2016 conference in Washington DC.
• 29th Jul 2016 – Talk – Introduction to Google App Engine – GDG North East (Newcastle).
• 23/24 Mar 2016 – Live correspondence from Google Cloud Platform Next 2016 in San Francisco with both GDG Reading & Thames Valley & GDG North East
• 4th Feb 2016 – Talk – Google Container Engine and Kubernetes – Oxford GDG Meetup
• 3rd Mar 2016 – Talk – Introduction to Google App Engine – Oxford GDG Meetup
• 30th Jan 2016 – Mentor – Mentoring participants @ Hack Cambridge hackathon as part of the Google team
• 27th Jan 2016 – Talk – Cloud And Social Are All You Need To Go Big – Digital Henley Meetup
• 13th Jan 2016 – Talk – Introduction to Google App Engine – Reading & Thames Valley GDG Meetup
• Dec / Jan 2016 – My blog posts on Kubernetes, Cloud Shell, Pi Zero with App Engine and Google Container Engine were featured in many newsletters, here are a few:
  • Pi Zero post Featured on Adafruit blog and on the Google Cloud Platform Flipboard
  • piweekly newsletter issue 137
  • Google Cloud Platform News Roundup for December 2015
  • LinuxBSDos.com – A 10 minutes guide to Kubernetes
  • Cloud Development Weekly issue 34
  • Web Operations Weekly issue 47
  • DevOps Newsletter issue 253
  • Devops Weekly #260
  • Dockone.io translated to Chinese
  • Kubernetes Daily
• 5th Aug 2015 – Talk – Google Bigquery, processing big data without the infrastructure – Reading & Thames Valley GDG developer gathering.
• 21st Oct 2015 – Conference presentation – A Novel Cloud Based Elastic Framework for Big Data Preprocessing – 7th Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/omerio
• GitHub: https://github.com/omerio
• LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/omerdawelbeit
• StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1958841/omerio