Omar Barkawi

🇺🇸United States· Seattle, WA

Aerospace engineer at Blue Origin who trades options on the side — and put up +798% on the USIC leaderboard in a single quarter.

Omar Barkawi's day job is systems engineering at Blue Origin in Seattle — the Jeff Bezos-founded spaceflight company. His side practice is options trading, and the Q1 2026 audit on his USIC entry in the $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division closed at +798.0%. That number puts him #1 on the user-facing leaderboard for the championship's traditional human-trader rankings, ahead of every named human competitor in the division. The BusinessWire announcement notes him second only to the AI-aided category leader (Dr. Terry Potter, +1,678.8% in HK) — but the AI-aided category is structurally separate from the human-discretionary one Barkawi runs in.

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Who is Omar Barkawi?

Seattle-based aerospace engineer Omar Barkawi (`@OhMyOhMar`) — Blue Origin systems engineer with an MS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute — is currently the top-ranked discretionary trader in the USIC 2026 $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +798.0% Q1 YTD.

Where is Omar Barkawi from?

Omar Barkawi is a trader from United States, based in Seattle, WA. Full country roster: trading-tournaments.com/traders/by-country/us.

Where can I follow Omar Barkawi online?

Omar Barkawi has public presence on 2 channels: X (https://x.com/OhMyOhMar), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarbarkawi/). All links verified against the trader's own bios where cross-referenceable.