Hi there! My name is Omer. I’m a software engineer.
I work at ID.me, helping build & maintain the identity layer of the internet.
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 ID.me, I worked at Sylabs Inc., developing & maintaining the SingularityCE containerization platform. 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).