Index
Omar Elbanby
Software. Business. People.
I am in the intersection of all three.
I build platforms for a living, and I've started my own businesses. This is where I write down what both are teaching me, including the parts that don't work, which is the half most people leave out.
WHAT I'M BUILDING TOWARDS
Building companies, systems, and teams that compound.
For most of my career, I've worked close to the foundation: infrastructure, platforms, developer tooling, and the systems that everything else depends on. I enjoy this type of work because good foundations compound fast. A decision made well today can help a team ship faster, a product evolve more easily, and a business scale more easily years later.
Building businesses made me appreciate the same idea from the other side. Technology isn't separate from the business. The architecture you choose, the teams you form, and the systems you invest in are all bets on where the company is going.
That's the direction I want to keep growing towards: becoming a technical founder, building the technical foundations that companies can grow on, and forming larger, high-performing teams capable of carrying that growth.
The kind of company I want to build takes a strong partnership between business and technology leaders who can set the direction together, make good bets, and build something that compounds over time.
Highlights
How I build
I believe good work starts with clarity of purpose. If I can't trace something back to a real goal, I question whether it should exist.
I believe boundaries matter. Systems, teams, processes, and responsibilities all need clear borders. When those boundaries aren't designed deliberately, they still appear accidentally, and usually in ways that are much harder to unwind later.
I believe simplicity is something you arrive at, not something you start with. The simplest solution is rarely the first one. It takes understanding the problem deeply enough to know what you can remove without losing what matters, and when you get it right, everyone thinks, "Oh, this is very simple!"--Dah.
And I believe foundations compound. A strong technical decision, a well-designed team, or a clear operating principle can quietly make hundreds of future decisions easier.
That is usually what I'm looking for when I build: clarity, strong boundaries, simplicity, and decisions that keep paying off.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Say hello
I like meeting people who are building things
If you're building something, I'd love to connect — even just to hear what you're working on.
- hey@obanby.com