I'm passionate about building technologies that solve challenging computational problems. I'm interested in a number of areas in computer science, and technology in general: distributed systems, networking, machine learning, security.

Software Engineer @ I work in the Ad Platform group, specifically user-targeting and machine learning. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Engineer @ Building/maintaining global-scale distributed systems. From August 2014 to April 2015 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaResearch Assistant @ Research in networking, distributed systems, machine learning From January 2012 to July 2014 (2 years 7 months) Greater Seattle AreaResearch Intern @ I engineered a data pipeline using Hadoop and Spark for network anomaly detection using various machine learning algorithms. From June 2013 to September 2013 (4 months) Research Assistant @ From September 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 4 months) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSoftware Engineer @ Worked in the Equity Estimates team, developing software ranging from back-end database design to front-end UI design. From July 2009 to May 2010 (11 months)

Master of Science (MS), Phd (not completed), Computer Science @ University of Washington From 2012 to 2014 B.S.E., Computer Science @ Princeton University From 2005 to 2009 Umar Javed is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Network Engineering, Network Architecture, Big Data, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Mobile Applications, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Network Security, Java, Scala, C++, Functional Programming, Object Oriented Software, CSS Javascript, Matlab