Umar Ahmed Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Refactored our C# linear algebra library to be more readable and performant
• Led task to localize desktop app into different languages; collaborated with QA on regression testing

• Implemented binary and JSON serialization functions for efficiently reading and writing data
• Created a command-line daemon to asynchronously collect sensor data and upload it to AWS
• Set-up a PostgreSQL database to store time series data; wrote queries to concisely summarize telemetry data and find mean time to failure
• Implemented a connection pool using libpqxx to dynamically manage connections to a PostgreSQL database, improved performance by up to 95%

Waterloo, Ontario

• Developed services for the key sharing server using Java
• Created unit tests for automated testing of security modules using JUnit and Mockito
• Discovered and fixed bugs in security modules and front-end services
• Researched and implemented security measures to eliminate vulnerabilities

Waterloo, Ontario

• Cleaned data and performed image segmentation using Python and OpenCV
• Developed utility tools using sklearn, Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib for daily operations such as calibrating cameras and generating visualizations of sensory data
• Worked towards the real-time detection of foreign material in chicken breasts using an SVM classifier