Omar A. Barakat
Technical Product Manager · Agile Coach
IBM AI Product Manager · ICP-ACC · PSM I (98.8%)
Cairo, Egypt · omarbravotube@gmail.com · LinkedIn
Summary
Technical product manager and agile coach with 10 years across tech, management, and training. I build products and the systems behind them, fix ones that have broken down, design data/AI products, and transform & teach organizations — 10+ products shipped, 5+ companies transformed, 2 startups cofounded, and an agile course taken by nearly 5,000 students.
Experience
Product Manager / Agile Practitioner
Feb 2025 – Present
Wolters Kluwer (USA)
- Driving product direction and delivery process for two Global Business Services products: Pegasus (organizational governance) and Brainboard (AI-driven infrastructure-as-code).
Technical Product Manager
Jan 2023 – Feb 2025
Aspire Software (Valsoft), Canada
- Owned the product vision for two car-rental SaaS products, RentAll and Bluebird Auto Rental Systems.
- Led the RentAll turnaround — rebuilt the delivery system and customer trust to cut churn to zero in ~4 months (then reverse it to growth), and improved high-priority issue turnaround from ~4 weeks to ~3 days.
Agile Coach
Sep 2020 – Jan 2023
Aspire Software (Valsoft), Canada
- Enterprise Jira champion and rotating process-improvement lead across ~60 acquired companies; turned onboarding into reusable templates run by a specialist team I trained.
- Coached cross-border teams (US, Canada, Spain, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Egypt) on agile and modern development practices.
Software Delivery Manager
May 2021 – Feb 2024
Easykash, Cairo
- Owned the full development-delivery process as Easykash grew to 15,000+ merchants and ~1B EGP in processed volume.
- Led PCI-DSS Level 1 certification in-house (~3 months) and extracted payments into a dedicated gateway (Easykash Gate), cutting payment issues ~70% in three months.
Scrum Master / Product Owner
Mar 2019 – Apr 2021
Easykash, Cairo
- Delivered Easykash's core payments engine from scratch — no-account checkout and one creation flow across many product types — plus 9 further products.
- Designed the consumer credit-scoring model for Qasatly, a concurrent BNPL venture: a self-improving, cohort-versioned approach to cold-start lending in a market with no credit bureau.
Agile Trainer
2020
Udemy · Sprints · Omni212
- Built and published a Udemy agile-transformation course (nearly 5,000 students since 2020); prepared bootcamp graduates at Sprints.io and taught Scrum at Omni212.
Cofounder
2017 – 2018
Eden Studios, Cairo
- Cofounded a software studio; first product an electronic healthcare record (EHR) for clinics and hospitals.
Earlier: English instructor at Berlitz International (learners from 10+ countries, 5 continents); teaching assistant at Ahram Canadian University.
Certifications
Awards
- Employee of the Month — Sep 2023
- Excellence Award — 2021
- Instructor of the Year — 2015
- 2nd Best Instructor — 2016
Skills
Agile transformation · Scrum / Scrumban / Kanban · product & delivery management · business analysis · coaching & training · SQL & DB management · Linux shell scripting · Git
Tools
Jira · Aha! · Azure DevOps · Bitbucket / GitHub / GitKraken / ZenHub · Trello · AWS
Selected products
Easykash (payments & gateway) · Qasatly (BNPL) · RentAll & Rentworks (car rental) · Heaven (e-wallet)
Education & Languages
B.Sc. Computer Science
October 6th University, Egypt · 2014 – 2018
English & Arabic — bilingual