Umer Ahmed
@umerahmed2
Software engineer specializing in system design, infrastructure, and AI tooling.
What I'm looking for
I am a systems-focused software engineer with deep expertise in infrastructure, CI/CD, and AI developer tooling, proven at scale in enterprise environments. I have led cross-organizational platform initiatives, built distributed workflow engines, and delivered AI-powered pipelines that improved relevance and developer productivity.
My work includes building FireX to streamline CI/CD for thousands of developers, optimizing pipeline throughput and costs, implementing observability with Grafana, and delivering RAG pipelines using FAISS and MCP-based retrieval. I combine hands-on engineering in Python, C, and TypeScript with cross-functional leadership to drive measurable reliability and performance gains.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder / Developer
QuranicRoots
Jun 2025 - Present (7 months)
Building a Next.js interactive Arabic learning app with dynamic lessons, quizzes, and progress tracking; deployed on Vercel with AWS backend services for secure real-time user data handling.
Software Engineer III
Cisco
Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)
Owned company-wide CI/CD infrastructure and AI-powered developer tooling, delivering FireX (workflow engine) for 3,000+ developers, increasing pipeline throughput 30% and cutting infrastructure costs by $50K+ per quarter.
Software Engineer II
Cisco
May 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 10 months)
Led reliability and performance upgrades for carrier-grade routing infrastructure, resolving memory leaks and redesigning data structures to reduce memory usage ~20% and improve stability in high-throughput environments.
Full Stack Web Developer
Kenna
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 (8 months)
Built and optimized data-intensive full-stack applications with React, Node.js, and SQL processing 100GB+ datasets, reducing page render time by 40% through API and query optimizations.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Guelph
Bachelor of Computing (Honours), Computer Science
Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science awarded in 2022 from the University of Guelph.
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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