Umar Farooq

• Designed and developed Go microservices for a high-throughput trading platform, achieving 200 K+ TPS through optimized concurrency and load distribution. • Built event-driven architectures with Kafka and gRPC, enabling real-time order processing and asynchronous data flows. • Containerized services with Docker and deployed on Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing time by 60%. • Established CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, ensuring automated testing, linting, and zero-downtime deployments.

• Contributed to weather.com’s global backend microservices, optimizing API performance and reliability for millions of users. • Refactored critical services to event-driven pipelines integrated with Redis and AWS S3. • Enhanced continuous delivery using Jenkins, Terraform, and Kubernetes, promoting end-to-end deployment automation. • Implemented testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end) improving release stability and reducing post- release defects.

• Developed core routing and analytics components in C++ and Go, improving concurrency handling in multi- threaded services. • Integrated payment systems within a microservice ecosystem using Dockerized Linux environments. • Implemented automated build processes via CMake and CI pipelines, improving cross-platform deployment efficiency. • Initiated adoption of unit and integration testing frameworks, improving release quality and reliability.

Data Structures, OOP, Database Systems, Computer Networks