Building the only AI powered talent manager for the unrepresented 99% of actors in the Indian entertainment industry.

Serving as an apprentice and panelist in training on a panel led by Sue Langstaff, an expert in the field of sensory analysis.The panel is contracted by the California Olive Oil Council in order to award California extra virgin olive oils the Council stamp and hence the commendation of highest quality.The panel also contracts services out to individual oil producers/companies to get a grading on their olive oil quality.

Mentoring junior engineers on software engineering best practices, primarily in the JavaScript stack for both frontend and backend.Helping experienced engineers new to the JavaScript stack transition faster, better, stronger.

Contracting for a former employer. I left my full-time position to explore and pursue passions, products and personal development.

Indigov empowers elected representatives (think Senators, Mayors) to effectively communicate with their constituents - allowing them to better understand their electorate and giving their constituents a louder voice. - Built, maintained multiple React apps and Node services in AWS as platform engineer - building full-stackfeatures and infrastructure, setting high Typescript code quality standards, mentoring junior engineers.- Proactively conceptualized & engineered new email editor as largest product overhaul to date, across entirestack (Rails, Node, React, Zendesk) resulting in best in-class editing experience for Congressional staffers.- Introduced feature flags: trained team on usage, built utilities for services/apps, documented best practices.- Observability evangelist: instrumented Node services, lambdas, React apps with Datadog + Bugsnag, wrotelogging utilities, outlined best practices. Set up alerts & processes - moving company from reactive => proactivein addressing critical issues, reducing production fires, and preventing client churn.- Pitched and maintained frontend “monorepo” - wrote utilities that significantly upgraded developer experience +efficiency and led efforts for code-reuse, readability, transparency, and strongly-typed GraphQL.- Introduced frameworks for testing backend Node services and async jobs running on Faktory (Sidekiq).- Successfully pitched GraphQL + own federated Apollo GraphQL Gateway built on NestJS deployed on Beanstalk- Oversaw audit into, and development of solution for zero-day vulnerability, managing engineering work of devsacross the stack, and providing regular updates to executives.

Top-rated software engineering mentor/instructor - focusing on:- Typescript/JavaScript - Node- React- Serverless- Observability, primarily Datadog- GraphQL- Career growthhttps://www.codementor.io/@faizanhali04

My team owns the most highly trafficked page at Credit Karma - the web and native dashboard/homepage - viewed by millions every day. * Tech lead: Voter Roadmap - volunteer effort to register (~250k) and provide resources to voting members in the 2020 election - guided engineering architecture, coordinated product, design, legal, engineering, analytics, managed volunteers. * Owner of Node + Typescript Federated GraphQL service powering dashboard through REST + RPC calls at thousands requests/min (serving millions/users/day) and orchestrated on Kubernetes.* Conceptualized & engineered the “fallback” - mitigating catastrophic failure for millions by bypassing failure points and calling downstream services directly to build a cross-platform dashboard.* Core engineer on Node service handling link exchange to support universal deep-linking for native.* Built backend powered native navigation - serving strongly typed objects through GraphQL service.* Excellent communicator, demonstrated by orchestrating projects involving teams in multiple locations and time zones.* Orchestrated alerts + graphs for: backend logs in Splunk, client impressions in Anodot, service health in Grafana, and spearheaded on-call best practices based on communication, transparency, empathy.

I worked on many roles in this position. * Worked on Node + TypeScript microservices utilizing Thrift RPC at scale as a founding engineer on Credit Karma’s largest engagement driver - Identity Monitoring. * Fought dragons inside our actively decomposing PHP monolith to aggregate data and serve a more personalized user experience.* An owner of the web dashboard written in React and querying data through Apollo GraphQL serving millions of users a day.* Product experimentation: brainstorming, ideation, and building quick, robust full-stack A/B tests to impact key metrics - engagement + revenue through cross functional collaboration with product, design, legal, engineering, analytics, and using data in Looker/Big Query to guide decisions. My unique familiarity with our tech stack allows me to develop creative solutions to complex problems, hacking together robust concepts that serve as the proving grounds for ideas and as the groundwork for conversations on scalability. I am a big proponent of a strong culture of experimentation where there should be a balance between feature building and freedom to ideate, experiment, and learn. This mindset allowed my past few “tiger” teams to overdeliver on our goals to boost revenue and engagement in separate shortfalls.

WorkAmerica was a funded DC-based startup that operated as a "LinkedIn for the blue-collar industry" and worked to put Americans on the path to employment. We were part of the 500 Startups accelerator in 2016. I was the sole software engineer. • Re-architected the company platform as a modular Angular 4 + Bootstrap 4 single-paged application calling a component based Spring Boot REST API using Hibernate + MySQL deployed through AWS Cloudfront and Elastic Beanstalk• Optimized front-end, reducing deployment size by over 75% resulting in 50% faster app load time through a combination of bundling, tree-shaking, lazy loading, ahead-of-time compilation, Gzip, CDN, code reuse/refactor, async script calls• Developed an efficient candidate searching and pagination algorithm that incorporates geographical radius-centric restrictions based on angular geometry and Google's Geocode API, reducing previous search speed by over 90%• Built an administration console for team members to update platform data, pull stats, provide user support and track user activity, saving hours a week of otherwise frustrating data collection for investor updates and product roadmap• Developed an API to parse POST-ed CSV or XML files from school partners to create user profiles, saving thousands in costs and days otherwise spent physically visiting schools and transcribing paper forms • Employed automation wherever possible using Angular-CLI, Grunt, Bash, NPM for building, deploying, and bundling to minimize build and deploy times• Deployed user + error tracking tools such as OverOps, Sentry, FullStory to rapidly catch and resolve functional and UX/UI issues that would otherwise take double the time• Built an in-platform "message-center" that allows employers to contact and converse with candidates via text message (Twilio) and e-mail (SendGrid + MailGun)

• Worked in a technical team serving the computational resource, networking and security needs of researchers• Maintained and deployed Windows and Unix-based hosts and servers• Developed technical guidelines for fellow staffers relevant to server administration• Physically troubleshot, networked and deployed nodes to multiple data centers