About

Data scientist and database engineer.

Software Specialist in the Operations team at TTECH. I own the databases behind Damani — health insurance for Iraq's government employees across all governorates.

TTECH also consults the Ministry of Health on digitalisation and sells a hospital information system — insured and uninsured patients, stock, HR.

Before that: telecom engineer in the mobile packet core.

Portrait of Omar Hussein

01TTECH

Damani

  • Millionsrecords — members, claims, encounters
  • Allgovernorates covered
  • 10+BI sources

02Approach

How I work

  1. 01

    Raise risk early

    Data and design concerns go to decision-makers before work starts.

  2. 02

    Validate against production

    Migrations and app logic are checked against the data they will touch.

  3. 03

    Automate recurring fixes

    A problem that repeats becomes a tool.

03Experience

Experience

Languages

  • ArabicNative
  • EnglishProfessional
  • TurkishElementary
  1. Now

    Software Specialist, Operations

    TTECH (Taqadum Iraq)

    Databases and data platform for Damani. Next — Head of the Database section.

  2. From 2022

    Packet Core & Security Engineer

    KOREK Telecom

    Packet core, IPSec, KPI anomaly detection.

  3. 2022

    Software Developer

    Trendy Technologies

    VAS platforms and APIs.

  4. 2017 — 2022

    B.Sc. Electronics & Communications

    University of Baghdad

04Tools

Tools

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Migrations
  • Performance tuning
  • Data validation

Data platform

  • Airbyte
  • Dagster
  • dbt
  • Superset

Applications

  • Python
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Docker

Data science

  • pandas
  • PyTorch
  • Anomaly detection
  • Backtesting