Umar Farooq
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolUmar Farooq is a pragmatic backend engineer with five years of experience building production services and security tooling across startups and consultancy environments. He has worked on IP data infrastructure at IPinfo.io and developed backend features like the range2ip command for the popular ipinfo/cli, demonstrating practical expertise in IP range processing. At Vyro he focused on backend infrastructure for stable diffusion and LLMs, blending ML-serving concerns with classical systems design. Earlier roles in cybersecurity and purple team operations gave him hands-on experience in penetration testing, ELK-based SIEMs, and vulnerability assessment, informing a security-first approach to engineering. He holds a BS in Computer Software Engineering from UMT and pursues psychology studies, reflecting an interest in human factors alongside technical depth. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative learner who prefers shipping robust, impact-driven systems.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology, Diploma in Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology at Virtual University of Pakistan (VU)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 3.44/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 3.44/4.0 at University of Management and Technology - UMT
Github Skills (6)
testing10
command-line-interface10
go10
cli10
command-line10
golang9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ipinfo/cli
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Official Command Line Interface for the IPinfo API (IP geolocation and other types of IP data)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 75 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Umar's contributions focused on implementing and enhancing the `range2ip` command within the IPinfo CLI tool. This included the development of the `range2ip` binary, and related files and functions such as cmd_range2ip.go, and main.go, and its integration within the wider CLI tool. The user's changes also demonstrate expertise in working with IP address range processing.
golangapiip-apiipinfocommand-line-interface
rm-Umar/cli
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Official Command Line Interface for the IPinfo API (IP geolocation and other types of IP data)
Contributions:54 pushes, 22 branches in 29 days
apiip-apiipinfoip-databasecommand-line-interface
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