Umar Ahmed
CTO, Co-Founder at Treasured
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolUmar Ahmed is a Toronto-based CTO and co-founder with a decade of experience building product-led engineering teams and shipping web-scale front-end and full-stack systems. As CTO of ChainPatrol he led product and engineering strategy to combat Web3 phishing, launching an MVP at DevCon, securing YC/a16z offers, and closing both pre-seed and seed rounds while crossing $100k in revenue. He pairs a designer’s sensibility with engineering rigor—driving performant React architectures (including contributions to a React performance overlay tool) and pragmatic platform improvements that reduce complexity and operational cost. Earlier roles at Top Hat and Together Software show a track record of improving developer experience, localization, and conversion funnels. He combines hands-on implementation with strategic product leadership, frequently translating research-grade ideas into usable tooling and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English
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Github Skills (7)
html10
custom-element10
javascript10
react10
rendering9
render9
css9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aidenybai/react-scan
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Scan and fix React performance issues
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Umar's contributions primarily focus on developing the front-end of a React-based performance analysis tool. They implemented a custom element to overlay performance data on the webpage, including a canvas for visual representation and a toolbar for controls. The commits demonstrate the integration of this overlay, along with logic to control its visibility and display relevant performance metrics. The user also made changes to the project structure and element definitions.
reactjavascriptreact-domrenderingreact-scan
umar-ahmed/webgpu-pathtracer
Dec 2023 - Aug 2025
✨ A simple pathtracer running in the browser using WebGPU
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 7 months
webgpupathtracingrenderer
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