Umar Farooqi
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolUmar Farooqi is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building observability and infrastructure for AI and distributed systems, currently focused on Wearables AI at Meta. He has driven reliability and AI-powered features as a tech lead at Apollo.io, delivering initiatives like Ask Apollo, Pre-Meeting Insights, and a 50% latency reduction on widgets while mentoring engineers. His background includes infrastructure work at Google Stadia, search metrics at Adeptmind, and end-to-end backend and microservices migrations that cut deployment time and improved reliability. With a Master's from University of Waterloo and a Deep Learning Nanodegree, he bridges systems engineering and applied ML, often tackling the thorny production issues that go beyond on-call fixes. Notably, he combines hands-on backend POCs and reliability work with product-minded feature delivery across both startups and large platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityBE Electrical and Computer Engineering, BE Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (113)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mu4farooqi/Last-Writer-Wins
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
mu4farooqi/deep-learning-projects
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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