Umer
Khalid

10+ Years Engineer building platforms for businesses that scale without breaking.

10+ years

building full stack software, from startups to enterprise platforms

500,000+

people using platforms I've designed and built

1M+ a day

requests handled by tools I built and shipped myself

contact@umerkhalid.comVancouver, British Columbia
01What I do

Real Value. Real Results.

I have designed, delivered and maintained systems that run for millions of requests daily.

Platform architecture

Designing the platform, building the key parts myself, and taking a system from one site to many without slowing anyone down.

1 to 10+terminals on one platform at BCMEA

Product modernization

Moving the part of a product customers touch every day off an older foundation and onto a modern one.

Angular to Reactcustomer facing product at MediaValet

Quality and release

Bringing testing in house, automating the build and release pipeline, and leading the process that gets a platform into production.

2 months earlyBCMEA went live ahead of schedule

Team leadership

Leading iOS, Android and web developers on client projects, and mentoring engineers from curriculum design to one on one code review.

Lead and mentorSmart Coders DMCC and BrainStation
Companies I have worked with
BCMEAMediaValetMonetizeMoreDoctors-365BrainStationSmart Coders DMCCShoclefBCMEAMediaValetMonetizeMoreDoctors-365BrainStationSmart Coders DMCCShoclef
02Case study
Port operations, British Columbia

BCMEA

BCMEA runs the order entry system that port terminals across British Columbia rely on.

The challenge

The system served one terminal and about 500 people. The business needed it to serve more than ten terminals and over 5,000 people, without slowing anyone down.

What I did

I was the architect on this project. I designed the platform, built key parts of it myself, and led the quality and release process that got it into production.

The result

The platform went live in March 2026, two months ahead of schedule. It now runs across more than ten terminals and supports over 5,000 users on one consistent system.

10+

port terminals on one platform, up from one

5,000+

people using the platform, up from about 500

$800M+

moved daily through the port environment it serves

The $800 million figure describes the port environment this platform operates in. It is not revenue I generated. Figures are from BCMEA's own project reporting, 2026.

03Case study
Digital asset management, Vancouver

MediaValet

MediaValet sells software that lets marketing and creative teams store, find and share their photos, videos and brand files from one secure place, built on Microsoft Azure.

The challenge

The part of the product customers touched every day was built on an older foundation, and the company depended on an outside team for manual testing before every release.

What I did

I led the move of the customer facing product from Angular to React. I brought quality testing in house with Cypress and Selenium, helped connect cloud storage and databases for enterprise customers, and automated the build and release pipeline.

The result

The modernization was a success and customers responded immediately. MediaValet's annual revenue grew 66% in 2 years, from C$10.84 million in 2021 to C$18 million in the 2023 fiscal year.

70,000+

active platform users

C$18.1M

annual recurring revenue at the end of 2023

2024

acquired by an affiliate of STG Partners

These figures describe MediaValet's business, reported in its 2021, 2022 and 2023 annual results.

04Case study
Ad technology, White Rock BC

MonetizeMore

MonetizeMore helps website owners earn more from the ad space they already have, for hundreds of publishers in more than 40 countries, through a platform called PubGuru.

The challenge

Publishers needed better visibility into their traffic and ad performance, and the team needed a fast way to prove a change worked before rolling it out to everyone.

What I did

I built TrafficCop, a real time traffic monitor, and an ad analytics tool for PubGuru. I tuned how ads loaded on publisher pages to cut down on disruptive page jumping, and built small scale tests so changes could be proven before they reached every publisher.

The result

MonetizeMore's revenue grew from US$17 million to over US$20 million within a year.

1M+ a day

requests handled by the tools I built

40+

countries where MonetizeMore's publishers operate

US$20M+

company revenue

The revenue figure is the founder's own number from a published interview.

05Talks and teaching
Umer Khalid giving a talk on AI, holding a microphone beside a laptop
On stagetalking about AI and the future of jobs

Beyond the build.

Active in the Vancouver tech community, delivering talks on AI and mentoring the next generation of developers.

Microsoft certifiedAzure AI and Azure Fundamentals
Software EngineeringBachelor's degree
BrainStationSenior Software Engineering Educator, 2024 to 2025
06Experience

Also worked with.

Four more stops along the way, from a healthcare network in Germany to startups in Dubai and San Francisco.

Doctors-365

Software Engineer, Jun 2019 to Oct 2020, Germany, remote

Led the planning and build of four digital health products on Angular, distributed across a network of over 20,000 doctors and pharmacies.

20,000+ doctors and pharmacies

BrainStation

Senior Software Engineering Educator, Jan 2024 to Jan 2025, Vancouver

Taught and mentored students building full stack web applications, from curriculum design to one on one code review.

Hands on mentorship

Smart Coders DMCC

Software Engineer, Jul 2018 to Jun 2019, Dubai

Led a team of iOS, Android and web developers, delivering full stack projects for clients across e-commerce, fashion and food.

Cross-functional team lead

Shoclef Corporation

Software Developer, Sep 2016 to Jul 2018, San Francisco

Built backend services and a custom frontend for a live shopping and marketplace startup, with teams spread across five countries.

Early stage startup
07How I work

Let's talk.

Have an idea worth bringing to life, a business ready to scale, or a challenge worth solving? Reach out. Let's turn your vision into something built to grow.

contact@umerkhalid.com