Omar Rizk
SSoftware Engineer at Willow Labs · Search and ranking · Elasticsearch, Lucene
- Willow Labs
- Muscat, Oman · GST (UTC+4)
- 1+ years experience
- University of Jordan
- English, Arabic
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Overview
I work on search and ranking at Willow Labs in Muscat. Wrote the Java service that now handles 49 million requests a day. Moved 78% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Chess on lunch breaks.
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Skills
ElasticsearchLuceneScalaJavalearning to rankPython
Experience
- Software EngineerOct 2025 - PresentWillow Labs · 1 yr · Full-time · Muscat, Oman
- Brought on-call pages for search down from 19 a week to 3.
- Moved 88% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Projects
Side project: a reading list app
2024Built with Lucene and Scala. 112 people used it last year.
Search and ranking benchmark
2022Reproducible benchmarks comparing Python and learning to rank on real workloads.
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Education
- University of JordanBSc, Information Technology2021 - 2025
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