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, CI/CD, 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 production infrastructure in Buildkite with cryptographically signed builds, enforcing artifact provenance across database migration validation, agent registration, and other deployment-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 as FTE. NA.
CS 858 — Advanced Topics in Cryptography, Security & Privacy
Secure Multi-party Computation · Dr. Mohammad Hajiabadi · Scribe Notes 90%
CS 798 — Privacy in Computation
Dr. Ian Goldberg 97%
CS 798 — Multicore Programming in C++
Dr. Trevor Brown · 6th highest final grade in class of 30. 97%

Notable Undergraduate Coursework

CS 456 — Networks 100%
CS 458 — Security 88%
CS 365 — Complexity Theory CR
CS 343 — Concurrency 86%
CS 489 — Special Topics 86%
CS 453 — Linux Security 97%
MSCI 541 — Search Engines 80%
CS 370 — Numerical Computation 80%