Omer Arman

Head of Software Engineering, Web

Qlik · Redwood City, CA — May 2023 – Feb 2026

• Served as technical lead for Qlik.com's migration from Sitecore to a modern headless architecture built on Gatsby, Contentful, and Netlify, partnering cross-functionally to launch the English site on time under an accelerated timeline and roll out 6 localized sites.
• Managed and mentored a team of 5 engineers and 2 vendor partners, improving delivery discipline through coaching, clearer ownership, and consistent execution while advancing 2 senior engineers to Principal Engineer and broadening a QA engineer's role into the Scrum Master role.
• Managed web engineering across Qlik.com, the event platform, and acquired digital properties, aligning platform direction and roadmap execution to support M&A integration and improve web production speed by 50%.
• Improved planning, visibility, and operating cadence by reinforcing Agile delivery practices and cross-functional alignment, accelerating delivery timelines by 30% and reducing unplanned escalations by 40%.
• Implemented AI-assisted development workflows, increasing team productivity by 20% through streamlined engineering tasks and improved delivery efficiency.
• Drove accessibility compliance and cookie consent integration for Qlik.com, bringing global web properties in line with WCAG standards and privacy regulations.
• Ran Qlik.com's migration from Smartling to XTM, automating localization workflows and scaling multilingual publishing to 6 languages.

Head of Software Engineering, Web

Talend · Redwood City, CA — Apr 2021 – May 2023

• Oversaw engineering and web production through post-acquisition integration, leading 1 manager and a combined team of 12 to sustain content operations and delivery continuity during organizational change.
• Drove platform evolution and release planning in partnership with marketing and sales leadership, enabling revenue-driving web initiatives that contributed to 20% year-over-year pipeline growth.
• Established stronger planning and delivery governance through milestone tracking and executive reporting, improving delivery predictability and stakeholder confidence across the web roadmap.
• Led platform optimization initiatives that increased web traffic by 20% and reduced page-load times by 50%, strengthening site performance and user experience at scale.
• Integrated Marketo, Optimizely, and Smartling in partnership with marketing and content operations, enabling A/B testing, lead capture, and scalable multilingual content delivery across global web properties.

Senior Engineering Manager

Talend · Redwood City, CA — Jan 2018 – Mar 2021

• Accelerated an end-to-end enterprise website migration, delivering in 9 months versus an 18-month plan through stronger governance, dependency management, and execution discipline.
• Defined platform requirements and led vendor selection for a new web platform, translating business needs into a roadmap, operating model, and scalable delivery plan.
• Oversaw cross-regional engineering delivery across the US, France, and Ireland, aligning budgets, schedules, and vendor dependencies to sustain efficient execution across distributed teams.
• Built and developed a team of 5 engineers, increasing team versatility through targeted hiring, coaching, and cross-training.
• Delivered incremental development and redesign programs that contributed to an average of $80M in annual sales pipeline impact.

Manager, Web Development

Talend · Redwood City, CA — Nov 2015 – Dec 2017

• Established the company's 3-tier web platform and led engineering of the underlying stack on AWS, with Akamai as the CDN solution.
• Led the company's migration from Drupal to WordPress, managing an engineering partner and 2 in-house engineers across roadmap execution, vendor coordination, and delivery milestones.
• Recognized as a Top 5 Marketing Staff award recipient for cross-functional impact and delivery excellence.

Manager, Web Development

Check Point Software Technologies · San Carlos, CA — Oct 2014 – Nov 2015

• Led the migration of CheckPoint.com and ZoneAlarm.com from Adobe Experience Manager to WordPress, owning technical roadmap, vendor coordination, and delivery execution.
• Designed a static-site deployment approach to meet corporate security requirements by converting WordPress output to static HTML outside the DMZ.

Earlier Experience

• Check Point Software Technologies, Lead Web/Mobile Applications Developer
• Sigma Consultancy, Technical Project Manager
• Oracle, Principal Consultant
• Amgen, Web Dev & DevOps Team Lead
• Cypress Semiconductor, Web Portal Administrator

Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems — University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Platforms & Cloud

Netlify, AWS, GCP, Docker, Akamai

Modern Web

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Gatsby.js, JAMstack, Swift, Appcelerator Titanium SDK

CMS & Digital Experience

Contentful, WordPress, Drupal, AEM

Media & Analytics

Cloudinary, Google Analytics

Marketing Technology

Marketo, Optimizely, Smartling

AI-Assisted Development

GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Python

Engineering Tools

Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket