Hi, I'm Umar 👋

This is my first personal website running on Cloudflare Workers.

I'm currently a software engineer at Ramp. Some fun stuff I do includes:

Manage all monorepo "service" deploys to production in 8 minutes or less via AWS ECS Fargate.
Keep track of Ramp's MoM service reliability across 400+ services for SLIs -> SLOs -> contract SLAs.
Manage isolated, pre-deployment prod infrastructure in Buildkite with cryptographically signed builds, enforcing artifact provenance across database migration validation, Temporal schedule synchronization, agent registration, and other deploy critical steps.

Education

University of Waterloo

Grade: 85% cumulative GPA over 4.5 years of study.

Jan. 2023 – Dec. 2025

Bachelor of Computer Science

Sept. 2020 – Dec. 2022

Bachelor of Software Engineering

Notable Graduate Coursework

CS 856 — High Performance Networking
Dr. Mina · No grade because I left halfway to join Ramp fulltimne.
CS 858 — Advanced Topics in Cryptography, Security & Privacy
Secure MPC · Dr. Mohammad Hajiabadi · 90%
CS 798 — Privacy in Computation
Dr. Ian Goldberg · 97%
CS 798 — Multicore Programming in C++
Dr. Trevor Brown · 97% · 6th highest in a class of 30

Notable Undergraduate Coursework

CS 456 — Networks · 100%
CS 458 — Security · 88%
CS 365 — Complexity Theory
CS 343 — Concurrency · 86%
CS 489 — Special Topics · 86%
CS 453 — Linux Security · 97%
MSCI — Search Engines · 80%
CS 370 — Numerical Computation · 80%