Umer Farooq
Lead Engineer (Mobile) at Ultra Codes (Private) Limited
Lake Ozark, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolUmer Farooq is an Associate Software Engineer based in Lahore with eight years of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable applications and a practical grounding in cybersecurity. He has progressed through roles at Pak Elektron and Arbisoft to security-focused internships at The Bank of Punjab, where he specialized in penetration testing and secure SDLC practices, and recent engineering roles at The Hexaa and WAMO LABS. Umer blends full-stack engineering with a security-first mindset, enabling him to anticipate and mitigate vulnerabilities early in development. Known on GitHub for "Building the Matrix," he enjoys exploring complex system design and integrating robust security controls into production software. His background in Computer Software Engineering from UMT combined with applied security experience makes him adept at delivering resilient, enterprise-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Urdu, English, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
scrapy6
rad6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
edx6
python6
heroku-toolbelt6
tablesorter6
web-crawler6
flask5
react5
flask-api5
api5
lms5
learning-management-system5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lumsx/edx-platform
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
The Open edX platform, the software that powers edX!
Contributions:4 releases, 10 reviews, 41 PRs in 4 months
pythondjangoedxpowersedx-platform
lumsx/ecommerce
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 30 PRs in 1 month
djangoedxproduct-cataloghandlingcatalog
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