Umaid Hashmi

About Umaid Hashmi

Senior Python Developer with 4+ years of experience designing, building, securing, and deploying scalable backend systems and data platforms.Strong expertise in Django and FastAPI for developing enterprise-grade web applications and RESTful APIs.Hands-on experience with SQL databases, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Cloud Run, Docker, CI/CD, system design, microservices architecture, distributed data processing, authentication, and performance optimization.I enjoy working at the intersection of software engineering and data, and I am driven by solving real-world problems through robust systems and meaningful analytics.Improved processing efficiency by 45%, reduced operational effort by 40%, and delivered production-grade high-availability systems.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Pointcross Life Sciences

   Oct 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Directed a 5-member team to oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, identifying and resolving defects that increased development efficiency by 30%- Executed comprehensive data extraction, cleaning, analysis, and visualization to deliver actionable insights supporting strategic, data-driven decisions- Automated extraction of structured and unstructured data from multiple file formats (PDF, Excel, XPT, CSV) using advanced scripting and data processing frameworks- Developed and standardized over 100 reusable scripts for converting PDF data into Excel, utilizing pdftotext, PyPDF, Camelot, and pandas ExcelWriter to ensure consistent and accurate CSV outputs- Enforced PEP 8 coding standards across the entire codebase, improving code quality and maintainability by 15% and ensuring industry best practice compliance- Built scalable distributed data pipelines with Apache Spark (PySpark) to process and transform large datasets, optimizing join operations and partitioning to reduce execution times by up to 25%- Designed and deployed cloud-native data workflows on Google Cloud Platform, integrating Google BigQuery for efficient large-scale analytical queries and automating ingestion pipelines for structured dataset reporting- Developed high-performance RESTful APIs using FastAPI to expose data processing services and machine-readable endpoints, facilitating seamless integration between backend data pipelines and analytics applications.

Education

• Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering