Hi there! My name is Omer. (It rhymes with “Homer”.)
I’m a Staff Software Engineer at GEICO Tech.
I’ve had a rather unorthodox career path. I got my first software development job straight out of high school, and worked as a software engineer from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s. I then spent about 15 years as an academic linguist, while continuing to nurture my techie skillset on the side. In 2022, I decided to resign my tenured position as a professor of linguistics and return to software engineering.
Between leaving academia and joining GEICO Tech, I worked at Sylabs Inc., developing & maintaining the SingularityCE containerization platform, and on the Authentication team at ID.me.
My contributions to SingularityCE are open-source, and can be viewed here.
Some other things:
If you’re interested in stuff I produced in academia, try my old academic homepage (but please note that it is not actively maintained).