Ummar Abbas
SW Engineering Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Qatar
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Top SchoolUmmar Abbas is a software engineering leader with over 10 years of experience building scalable cloud systems, AI-driven products, and imaging/medical software across research and industry. Currently leading a 10+ engineer team at Qatar Computing Research Institute, he blends hands-on architecture and algorithm design with productization of research into commercializable solutions used in clinical trials and national deployments. His background spans MRI image processing, TEM acquisition systems, and healthcare platforms, giving him rare depth in both low-level native C++ systems and high-level cloud/ML architectures. He is skilled at guiding diverse, multidisciplinary teams and translating domain expertise into robust, deployable software—often contributing code and design while scouting new product opportunities. Recognized consistently in top performance tiers, he pairs formal algorithmic training with practical experience shipping complex, safety- and performance-sensitive systems. Based in Qatar, Ummar’s portfolio shows a pattern of turning research prototypes into production-grade platforms for healthcare, cybersecurity, and productivity tools.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Bangalore Institute Of TechnologyMasters in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Algorithms, Masters in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Algorithms at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPre University, Sciences, Pre University, Sciences at St. Aloysius Junior College
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
fitbit10
withings10
bert-embeddings9
health8
wearable-devices8
smartphone8
fitness8
data-processing6
zoneminder6
vector5
similarity5
python5
machine-learning4
cosine-similarity4
postgresql3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uabbas/ProjectEuler
Aug 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
qcrisw/python-nokia
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
Library for the Nokia Health API
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
apihealthnokianokia-health
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