About

Syed Umar is an AWS - Nodejs Developer at Cognizant with 5.4 years of experience in designing, developing, and enhancing services and applications using industry best standards. He is a passionate professional with an acumen to chase technical excellence through continuous learning and validation with industry recognized certifications. With 6x AWS, 1x Azure, and 1x Oracle certifications, Syed has always chased technical excellence, making a point to get certified in the latest technologies. Syed has a strong belief in "Keep it Simple Silly" and always tries to solve problems in a simple manner by breaking a task into minute steps and coding his way to build an entire service or application. He is enthusiastic about learning new features and implementing them to solve problems in a more efficient way. Syed has provided valuable contributions to the projects he has worked on, being beneficial to the customer. He has been awarded many company standard awards such as Brillian of the Month (multiple times), Brillian of the Quarter, and Customer Appreciation for project contribution. Syed has worked at Cognizant as an AWS - Nodejs Developer - Associate, where he has developed solutions using Nodejs, Microservices, and Docker on AWS. He has also decommissioned legacy applications and services to AWS using ECS, EC2, ELB, ASG, Lambda, ElastiCache – Redis, S3, KMS, DynamoDB, R53, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation. He has implemented complete migration and sync of Legacy IBM DB2 database (17M records) into AWS tenancy - Elasticsearch (EC2) using Microservices. Syed has also worked as a Senior Back-End Developer - AWS at Brilio, where he has developed solutions using Control Tower, Organizations, Service Catalog, CloudWatch, SQS, Step Function, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Code Build, S3, API Gateway, Config, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, EC2, AutoScaling Group, ELB, CloudFront, ACM, R53, S3, Service Catalog, and DynamoDB. Syed has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology. He has also completed Pre University Education from St Joseph's Pre University College and SSLC from RT Nagar Public School. Syed's tech stack includes AWS, NodeJS, Azure, Redis, Microservices, DevOps