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Umer Ahmed

@umerahmed2

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Software engineer specializing in system design, infrastructure, and AI tooling.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable infrastructure and developer platforms where I can lead cross-functional projects, improve reliability and performance, and deliver AI-enabled tooling with measurable impact.

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

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Founder / Developer

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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.

Next.js React Vercel AWS Lambda DynamoDB Cognito Full Stack Deployment

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Software Engineer III

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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.

Python Elasticsearch CI CD Distributed Systems Grafana AWS Observability Automation

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.

C++Valgrind Data Structures Reliability Debugging High Throughput Systems Traceability

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.