I like fast bits & high performance computing, privacy & security (secure computation), os & concurrency and distributed systems. WG21 and c++ enthusiast Get in touch! umar [dot] yousafzai [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca

Experience

RampSoftware Engineer

2026 — Now

more sre stuff

make monolith deploys 15 mins or less

still an intern if we're being fr

RampSoftware Engineer Intern

2025 — 2026

New York City Metropolitan Area

production & sre engineering & compute infra

make ramp ship faster and reliable

University of WaterlooUndergraduate Research Assistant

2024 — Now

Spring 2025: Concurrent data structures under Professor Trevor Brown.

Fall 2024 & Winter 2025: Side channel attacks under Professor Sihang Liu.

StripeSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

service infrastructure

AppleSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

Seattle, Washington, United States

instructional products: end-to-end encrypted (mTLS) services telemetry💡🧃

infrastructure for service mesh & low-latency (lossless) distributed systems

Education

University of Waterloo

MMath

2027

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Software Engineering

2025

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

TOPS Program

2020

Experience+14

Education

MMath

Bachelor of Software Engineering

TOPS Program

Experience