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Umar Farooque

Product Manager & former Software Engineer. I turn ambiguous problems into shipped product.

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PRODUCT STRATEGY · SAAS PRICING · PARTNER APIS · AGILE DELIVERY · A-CSPO® ·
SAAS / IOT / RFID / FINTECH / COMPLIANCE / DEVELOPER TOOLS / RECRUITMENT /

(01) About

9+ years across product management and software engineering. I've shipped in B2B SaaS, industrial IoT and RFID, Fintech, Compliance, Developer Tools and Recruitment. I started as an engineer and still work inside the build — writing API specifications, defining integration architecture, and staying close to production.

(02) Selected Experience

(03) Clips

In motion

Clips, builds, timelapses

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Highlands, Scotland

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Isle of Skye, Scotland

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Edinburgh, Scotland

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Como, Italy

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Como, Italy

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Marche, Italy

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Milan, Italy

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Como, Italy

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Milan, Italy

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Como, Italy

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Como, Italy

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London, England

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(05) Photographs

@um.fq

Selected frames — museums, facades, odd corners

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A dark green Bentley Batur on a concours display stand, its board naming it a one-of-one Scarab commission.
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A black cat sitting in silhouette on a red tiled terrace, a sunlit garden and handrail behind it.
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A museum corridor packed wall to ceiling with plaster casts, carved fragments and lidded funerary urns.
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A gallery landing framed by two painted columns, a glazed dome above and a mural over the ironwork balustrade.
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The Elizabeth Tower at Westminster under flat grey cloud, both clock faces reading just after ten to two.
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A museum's grand gallery seen from the upper balcony, white cast-iron arcades running under a barrel-vaulted glass roof.
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A funicular line lit in a single thread up a dark wooded hillside at night, above a lakeside town and the water below.
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A modern stone and glass office block lit from the inside at blue hour, empty street in front.
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The face of an apartment tower, balconies and windows repeating to every edge of the frame.
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A tyrannosaur skull mounted on a black stand in a museum gallery, display cases behind it.
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An aerial view over a valley town at dusk, a storm cloud breaking open above the ridgeline behind it.
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A sage green Vespa on a white display plinth outside a cafe, under a parasol.
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12 frames · updated by handSee all on Instagram ↗︎

(06) Stack

AI Tools

ClaudeChatGPTGitHub CopilotPerplexity

AI in Product Work

AI-assisted discoveryInterview synthesisCompetitive researchSpec draftingPrompt engineering

Machine Learning

Recommender systemsCollaborative filteringApache MahoutML analysisPySpark

Product & Delivery

JiraConfluenceProductboardAsanaMiro

Data & Analytics

BigQueryAnalyticsAmplitudeTableauSQLPythonRJupyter

Platform & APIs

REST APIsMicroservicesAWS LambdaS3MongoDBMQTTPortainer

Engineering Background

SwiftKotlinJavaJavaScriptXcode

(07) Writing

2026 — 01Fourteen brands, one provisioning APIENGINEERING2025 — 11The pull request is the spec reviewNOTES

(08) Reviews

Things I actually own and use, rated honestly. No affiliate links, no review units — if it is here, I paid for it and lived with it.

DronesIn progress

DJI Neo 2

DJI

Still flying it and taking notes. The questions I want this review to answer: whether a palm-launch drone earns its place after…

Still being written
PhonesIn progress

iPhone 13 mini

Apple

Notes in progress. What I want to work out before writing this properly: what you actually trade away to keep a phone this small,…

Still being written

(09) Off the Clock

AQUARIST1 / 11

Aquarist

A planted tank cannot be rushed. You change one variable and then you wait two weeks to find out whether you were right. No other hobby of mine punishes impatience as directly as shipping software does.

(10) Certifications

(11) Education

MSc Business Analytics and Big Data

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MIP Politecnico di Milano Business School · Milan, Italy

BTech Computer Science

8.36/10

Jamia Hamdard University · Delhi, India

LanguagesEnglish — FluentItalian — IntermediateHindi — Fluent

(12) Publications

Both on collaborative filtering and recommender systems. Titles link to IEEE Xplore.

(13) Let’s Build Something

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