I learned that real excellence isn’t about being the smartest person in the room,” says Omer Bin Tariq. “It’s about being the one who cleans up the biggest mess.” He recalls a particular incident at GIKI, a disastrous senior project where, two days before the deadline, everything broke. While others panicked, he simply started tracing wires and re-soldering components one by one, working through the night. “The solution wasn’t genius; it was just stubborn, focused labor.
That philosophy—the commitment to meticulous, hands-on recovery—is what defines his current success as a leading professional in his field. He’s the person companies call when complex, multi-layered systems fail. Where others see insurmountable chaos, Omer sees a GIKI exam, a series of fixable challenges. The rigorous, sink-or-swim environment of the institute didn’t just teach him engineering principles; it taught him to have absolute trust in the process of rebuilding. “The messier the problem,” he concludes, “the clearer the solution becomes, provided you have the patience to see it through. That’s a lesson GIKI gives you better than any textbook.”