Backend · Data · AI Infrastructure

Omar Aydah

Backend, data & AI systems — I build the parts that have to be right.

Now

Software Development Engineer

Development Monitors LLC · Backend / RIGORA · Washington, D.C.

Also

Residential Assistant

Westfield State University · 280-student community

Studying

B.S. Computer Science

Westfield State University · Class of ’27 · Dean’s List

See the work → Résumé

Work

Two shipped systems. One runs in production for real researchers; the other you can click right now.

query "underpowered trials"
→ dispatch 5 databases
pubmed · crossref · openalex
semantic_scholar · scholar
→ dedup 912,400 records
→ corpus 248 candidates
✓ report generated

01 / 02 — PRIVATE REPO

RIGORA

Research Integrity Platform · Virginia Tech × Gates Foundation

An AI-powered platform that flags questionable research practices in academic literature before they can shape funding decisions. I own the backend end-to-end: a search pipeline that translates one query across 5 academic databases, surfacing 900,000+ deduplicated records narrowed to a targeted corpus, plus citation-graph traversal and a 5-class misconduct classifier powering automated reports. Rebuilt the statistical layer to cut query latency 43% and scale test coverage 3.4×.

PythonFastAPIPydanticscipyrapidfuzzPostgreSQL

Private client codebase

POST /api/session/book
auth bearer ✓
stripe checkout.session ✓
calendly oauth ✓ scheduled
200 · session confirmed

02 / 02 — LIVE

Bridge

Mentorship Marketplace · Team project · 2 sprints

A paid mentorship marketplace connecting job seekers with vetted industry mentors — booking, Stripe payments, Calendly scheduling, AI-guided intake, and live video sessions. I built the backend API and integration layer: session and mentor data services, and resolved a blocking Google OAuth/Calendar authentication issue to get scheduling reliable in production.

Next.jsReactSupabaseStripeCalendlyVercel

Live demo →

Also

Personal builds in progress — publishing to GitHub as they ship.

03In progress

Next build

Personal project — shipping soon.

04Planned

Coming soon

Personal project — shipping soon.

05Planned

Coming soon

Personal project — shipping soon.

Most recent first. The RIGORA role is the one worth reading — it went from a search pipeline to a live demo in front of the funder.

Own end-to-end backend architecture for RIGORA, an AI research-integrity platform built with Virginia Tech faculty and funded by the Gates Foundation.
Built multi-database search translating one query across 5 academic databases with database-specific syntax, surfacing 900,000+ deduplicated records narrowed to a targeted corpus.
Rebuilt the statistical layer (power analysis, bootstrap confidence intervals) to fix production accuracy failures — cutting query latency 43% and scaling tests 3.4× (76 → 260+).
Delivered live product demos to the Gates Foundation project lead, contributing to a $500K contract secured for the company.

Oversee a residential community of 40 students within a 280-student building.
Develop and run 6+ programs per semester focused on engagement, leadership, and academic success.
Provide indirect counseling across 20+ one-on-one conversations per semester on college-success strategies and conflict resolution.

Mentored 80 incoming freshmen during a 5-week Summer Bridge program — academic workshops, peer study groups, and individualized guidance.
Represent the program at recruitment panels, information sessions, and outreach events for prospective students.

Terminal

A real shell, not a screenshot of one. Type help to see the commands, or whoami if you are only here to snoop.

omar@omaraydah.dev — ~

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omaraydah.dev — direct console

type 'help' to begin.

omar@dev ~ %

Contact

omaraydah27@gmail.com

Best place to reach me — open to backend, data, and infrastructure roles, and always happy to talk shop.

Résumé

The full, current version.

↓ Download résumé

Elsewhere

GitHub ↗ LinkedIn ↗ Bridge (live) ↗

Languages

English

Arabic