Summary
Ubaid Usmani is a DevOps Engineer based in Toronto with 8 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across fintech, marketplace, and enterprise domains. He has driven measurable impact—raising uptime from 89% to 99%, accelerating Elasticsearch queries by 30%, and delivering product-led revenue features that boosted ARPU by 40%. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks, streaming (Flink, Kafka, Debezium), and orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes), he blends SRE discipline with backend engineering from his time as an SDE and at BlackRock. As a founder and course instructor, he pairs hands-on system design with mentoring and content creation, and he emphasizes data-first decision making ("data really powers everything we do"). Currently at BrainRidge Consulting (BMO), he’s pursuing a master’s in computer science while continuing to architect fault-tolerant data and payment platforms.
8 years of coding experience