Umer Farooq

Open source evangelist with 7+ years of experience as a full stack developer, developing intuitive and bespoke web and mobile applications. I have spent the past few years freelancing and contracting for some exciting companies including TRIPLI (AOL Fish Bowl Incubatee), CareGiver Asia pte. ltd., Funimation, NYUStern Business School, WIBO, Southwestern Colleges and CarePlanners.
Focus skills include:

• Development & execution of On-demand and Sharing Economy concepts
• Architecture designing and scalability
• Ruby (Rails, Sinatra)
• PHP (WordPress, Zend, CodeIgniter, Drupal)
• Linux Ubuntu server management with AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace
• Source code management with GIT and Mercurial
• MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Front end development support
• Proficient in using APIs, including: Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Soundcloud, LastFM and Instagram
• Payment solutions integrations including: Paypal (Simple & Adaptive APIs), Buckaroo, iDeal, Authorise.net, Stripe, BrainTree