With big data as the new global currency, Omar’s passion for data science and social media analysis led to two patents filed while working for the Samsung Research and Development Institute Indonesia from 2014 – 2015. The holder of a Masters in Computer Science from Universitas Indonesia (2014) also has other equally impressive projects on his resumé. They range from governmental performance analysis system to facial recognition with Extreme Learning Machine. Omar has also won competitions, such as Code for Vote held by Google and Preludem, before his current 2018 position as Data Lead in the Kompas Gramedia Group, Indonesia’s leading integrated media company and Southeast Asia’s fastest growing media company.