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About Me

Hi my name's Umaid and I'm a Platform Developer based in Ottawa. I've always enjoyed developing software and learning about new technologies to better my craft. I enjoy working with open source projects and use a variety of OSS in my home for home automation.

Besides technology my passions/interests include rock climbing, cycling, cooking, coffee and spending time with my dog.

Current role

WealthSimple

I'm currently a Infrastructure Platform Engineer at Wealthsimple.

  • Build opinionated Terraform modules that are used by developers to bring up self serve infrastructure in AWS.
  • Write tooling in bash and Python to automate tasks.
  • Migrated various infrastructure developed in CloudFormation to Terraform, seamlessly
  • Provide guidance to developers to help containerize their Apps/Services to run on our kubernetes clusters
  • Currently migrating from Nomad to EKS

Past Roles

Shopify

  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines on buildkite that ran code linters, unit tests, intergration tests, and finally deployed to the Google Cloud platform.
  • Built Python based RESTful APIs using the FastAPI framework
  • Contributed features to various Ruby on Rails Applications within Shopify as well as maintaining external dependencies.

RockPort Networks

DevOps Engineer

  • Manged Jenkins Servers, integrated them into our test infrastructure and eith SCM so builds trigger on PRs.
  • Contributing to various repositories
  • Release Management and branching for releases.
  • Running code analysis using BackDuck
  • Moving our testing infrastructure to infrastructure as code using Python + Ansible and terraform.

Ciena

At Ciena I was an Automation and System Integration Engineer. I a helped to build a complete devops pipeline to enable us to automate the deployment of VNFs ( Virtual Network Functions) on the edge of modern networks. This allowed our in house VNF experts to quickly deploy a customer VNF design for testing and troubleshooting issues. This was done using Gitlab CI/CD.

Ford Motor

Shifting from telecommunications to infotainment systems, I was a automation test developer working for Ford Motor Company under the connected vehicles division. Where I created test cases to verify Ford's implementation of gRPC and a proprietary token solution based on OAuth 2.0 , once created I automated these tests using the Slash Framework and Python.

Nokia

I was a Automation Engineer at Nokia where I primarily used Python and RobotFramework to Automate Customer Lab testing for Nuage Networks and Nokia's Packet Core products.

Technical skills

  • Python, including various frameworks such as Flask
  • Proficient in cloud providers such as AWS
  • Experience in building a kubernetes
  • Proficient IaC such as Terraform
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs
  • Proficient in Linux systems, including automated building/deployment of containers
  • Various Virtualization technologies such as OpenStack/KVM
  • Strong understanding of Network Technologies and various Protocols
  • Proficient in CI/CD, including setting up a CI/CD from scratch. This webpage is built using Gitlab CI/CD

Projects

  • Algorithmic dashboards
    • Participated In a Nokia Hackathon to build a AI driven dashboard.
    • Based on what other users view, the application will recommend popular reports based on your user role.
    • My role was to build the API using Flask to connect the backend and front end.
  • Buzzer Redirect tool
    • Simple script that runs in the cloud, uses Twilio to redirect my buzzer to my cell phone as my building does not support long distance calls.

Contact Me

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