Umar Farooq
Senior Platform Engineer
United States
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Top SchoolUmar Farooq is a Senior Platform Engineer at Heroku (Salesforce) with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale runtime infrastructure and highly trafficked user services. He has delivered production systems at Peloton handling tens of thousands of requests per second, modernized data pipelines and infrastructure at Alloy, and shipped full-stack solutions for Fortune 500 clients at Accenture. Umar brings a practical blend of backend systems, cloud automation (Terraform migrations), and data engineering—having worked on Spark/Hadoop pipelines processing terabytes of voter data. Early experience in telecom network function virtualization and research roles shows his comfort with both low-level systems and large-data workflows. He’s pragmatic about automation, having created tooling that cut analytics reporting time by 80%, and thrives on turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, scalable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree International Relations and Economics (Honors), Bachelor's Degree International Relations and Economics (Honors) at Claremont McKenna CollegePolitical Science, Political Science at Iowa State University
arabic-modern standard, arabic-levantine, Urdu, English
Github Skills (1)
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
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