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
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Cathedral Sr Sec School
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Lakehead University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
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