Lebanese Hardware, American Software. I'm an engineer and investor based in Menlo Park, California.

Work

• Right now I'm building Center. We recently pivoted, prior to that we built blockchain developer tools for 3 years (2.5 too many, in retrospect).

Prior:

• First Entrepreneur in Residence at Paradigm.
  • Wrote the Uniswap v3 Liquidity Mining contract
• Coinbase: recruiting, then led the crypto-assets team that added native support for >$10B of tradable assets.
  • Patched Ripple's most popular wallet the night before live on Coinbase.
• dv01: co-founded a fixed income analytics software company that got acquired by Fitch in 2023.
• Also: Priceonomics (YC W2012), LendingHome, both acquired.

Fun

• Own a /24 IPv4 block.
• Run bare metal Kubernetes colocated at Hurricane Electric (where this site is hosted). I didn't strictly need this.
• Meridian Metal & Fiber is a small infrastructure company I run. Yes, BGP is on the roadmap.
• Using PostgreSQL for things it wasn't meant to do, like solving crossword puzzles and GPS trilateration.

Education

I studied Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Virginia, where I was a Rodman Scholar.

Elsewhere

• omar@omarish.com
• x.com/omarish
• github.com/omarish
• LinkedIn