About

Umar Ahmad is an experienced Fullstack Engineer with a background in Product Design and Development. He has over 3 years of experience in solving high-scale domain problems and delivering systems that focus on UX and scale handling. Currently, he is working as an Engineering Lead at Zomato, where he is responsible for building and maintaining complete chat support service, which is currently handling 20x the load of leading chat solutions in the market. Umar is proficient in Golang, Javascript, and PHP programming languages and has experience working with Golang, MySQL, React, React Native, Web dev, Microservices, Git, and Agile. He is looking for experienced developers with 2+ years of experience to solve problems with. At Zomato, Umar has led a 5-member tech team for the designs for the APIs for apps and web front end. He has also developed tools and features supporting financial auditing and liability management. Umar has enabled delivery flow for Mobile web by making a Progressive Web App(PWA) in React for the food ordering flow. He has optimized web UI and development time by moving to a templating system of underscore JS followed by a complete rewrite of the delivery page in React. Umar has experience in working with various companies like Drupal Project and Google, where he worked as a Contributor and Google Summer of Code Developer, respectively. He has completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2015. Umar is proficient in Web, Golang, AWS, SRE, React Native, product designer, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Redux, Microservices, Mobile, ui, Frontend, Backend, and infra. With over 8.20 years of relevant experience, Umar is a skilled engineer who can deliver systems that can handle high-scale domain problems with ease.