Hi, I'm Umar 👋

This is my first personal website running on Cloudflare Workers.

I'm currently a software engineer at Ramp working on compute, CICD, networking & observability.

Highlights include:

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 validations,cagent registration, and more!

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 as FTE.
CS 858 - Advanced Topics in Cryptography, Security & Privacy
Secure Multi-party Computation · Dr. Mohammad Hajiabadi · 90% Scribe Notes
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%