Usama Khan
Procurement Manager at Careem
Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolUsama Khan is a Procurement Manager with 10 years of experience using strategic sourcing, change management, and sustainable procurement to drive cost savings and operational value across national portfolios. Currently leading Pakistan Tech Procurement for Careem’s Basecamp in Dubai, he manages diverse categories from Trade Marketing and POS to Technology and Real Estate while embedding supplier relationship management and global best practices. Trained as an Industrial Engineer, he moved into decision-making early by crafting procurement principles that optimize supply processes and prioritize reliable, sustainable outcomes. Beyond procurement, he contributes to cloud and DevSecOps projects—helping back-end and monitoring tooling like the popular IngressMonitorController—bringing a rare blend of technical operations insight to contracting and vendor integration. Colleagues value him for translating complex sourcing challenges into measurable savings and resilient supplier partnerships.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering at NED University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (10)
ingress10
kubernetes10
go10
controller10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
configuration-management9
api8
testing8
apidoc8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stakater/IngressMonitorController
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
A Kubernetes controller to watch ingresses and create liveness alerts for your apps/microservices in UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Pingdom, etc. – [✩Star] if you're using it!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 87 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Usama primarily contributed to the backend code and configuration of the Ingress Monitor Controller, with a focus on integrating and configuring various monitoring providers such as Pingdom and Uptime.com. They fixed bugs related to the handling of request headers in the Pingdom monitor. Additionally, they made changes to the configuration and test files, and adapted the code to address special characters in URLs, demonstrating contributions to both the application logic and its operational aspects. The user also introduced Uptime.com as a new provider.
monitorcontrolleruptimerobotuptime-checkeropenshift
stakater/StakaterPlatform
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Stakater platform provides out of the box stacks to control, monitor, log, trace and security for applications deployed on kubernetes using CI/CD pipelines.
Contributions:121 commits, 34 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 months
monitorboxdevopssecurityout-of-the-box
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