Summary
Usman Haque is a designer-entrepreneur and Co-Founder with 16 years of experience blending architecture, interactive systems and urban technology to create participatory public spaces and IoT platforms. As founder and creative director of Umbrellium and earlier creator of Pachube and Thingful, he has built infrastructure that enabled millions of IoT datapoints and helped define open discoverability for connected objects. He now leads strategy at Starling Technologies on dynamic pedestrian-safety systems while directing HAQUE TAN to fuse art, architecture and civic technology at city scale. A Design Council Ambassador and advisor to the Mayor of London on data, his practice moves between large-scale public art, urban wilding and standards work (BSI PAS 212), revealing a rare mix of creative direction, product-scale engineering and policy influence. Unusually for a technologist, he also composes and performs music under the name uah, bringing an experimental, performative sensibility to his built work.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer