Umar Hussain
Forward Deployed Engineer at Federato
Dresden, Saxony, Canada
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Top SchoolUmar Hussain is a Forward Deployed Engineer and Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo with a decade of hands-on experience building robotics autonomy, AI, and cloud-backed web applications. He has delivered production ML systems—from GPU-optimized data pipelines and TensorRT deployments for lane detection to PyTorch Lightning video models and large-scale image clustering dashboards—often owning end-to-end stacks including ROS2 nodes, Dockerized AWS services, and Redis/Celery performance optimizations. His work blends classical robotics algorithms (EKF, image transforms) with modern deep learning (CNNs, Transformers, UMAP/HDBSCAN embeddings) to improve real-world localization, anomaly detection, and dataset curation. Notably, he achieved measurable impact like a 6% localization boost at AeroVect and a 3x UI speedup via caching at Musashi AI, reflecting a focus on performance and operational reliability. Based in Dresden with experience across research labs and startups, he thrives at the intersection of research-grade vision models and production deployment.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cameron Heights Collegiate InstituteCandidate for Bachelors of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Candidate for Bachelors of Applied Science Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
bitnami10
firebase10
google-pay10
sendgrid10
apache-nifi10
charts10
helm10
firebase-database10
firebase-messaging10
kubernetes10
crashlytics10
apache10
java10
android10
kubernetes-ui10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
umarhussain15/geofire-android
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
umarhussain15/nifi
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Apache NiFi
Contributions:29 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
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