Umar Draz
CodexaAI Founder And Principal Engineer at IT Pixelz
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolUmar Draz is the founder and Principal Engineer at CodexaAI, bringing over a decade of hands-on experience building AI-driven SaaS and automation platforms for enterprise and SME clients across the UAE, GCC, and the US. He specializes in pragmatic, ROI-focused solutions that combine OpenAI, Python, Node.js, Angular, Postgres, and cloud deployments on AWS or Azure with MLOps, monitoring, and cost controls. Umar has a strong track record delivering high-quality production workloads and migrations—leading small senior teams to accelerate delivery while maintaining SLAs, security, and observability. His background includes long-term, top-rated engagements via Toptal and delivery of 200+ projects at IT Pixelz, showing a rare mix of startup founder grit and enterprise-grade engineering discipline. Based in Dubai and educated in business finance, he uniquely blends technical depth with commercial sensitivity to design solutions that prioritize measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
Business Finance & Taxation, Commerce, Business Finance & Taxation, Commerce at University of the Punjab
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (48)
flamingo9
philosophy8
psychology8
plugin8
wordpress-plugin8
wordpress8
history8
textbook8
economics7
plugin-development7
excel7
grid7
react7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
itpixelz/wp-default-sender-email-by-it-pixelz
Oct 2017 - Apr 2023
Official repository for Wordpress plugin "Wp Default Sender Email by IT Pixelz"
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 6 months
wordpressemailsenderemail-senderwordpress-plugin
itpixelz/my-reading-list
Oct 2017 - Feb 2024
This repository will contain a list of books I've read.
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
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