FAROUK FAIZ

– Independent engineering work on backend performance, AWS infrastructure, agentic AI, etc. – On missions where the technical bar is high and ownership is real.

– Agentic AI: Designed and implemented agentic AI systems to assist with Mainframe modernization (e.g. COBOL to Java) integrating LLMs with internal services and tooling, including HITL controls, with a focus on secure execution, observability, and system reliability. – Performance & Scalability: Reduced dependency graph loading time for 1M+ nodes from 40 minutes to 1.5 minutes (25x), optimized large-graph operations from 2 hours to 2 minutes (60x), and reduced download storage usage by 70x. – As a Security Guardian, actively pushed for and participated in the majority of the organization's security reviews. – CI/CD & Versioning: implemented a SemVer-compliant versioning system and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS, which have since been used over 10,000 times by over 50 developers across teams. – Designed and implemented a more transparent and secure software product distribution system for clients. – Migration: co-led the migration from Java 8 to Java 17 and Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 on a 5-month project, ensuring a smooth transition for more than 50 impacted developers.

– Integration Monitoring: Designed and implemented an integration monitoring dashboard to enhance visibility into third-party data synchronizations. – Full-Cycle Project Management: Led features from specification through to production deployment, including writing RFCs. – Deployment & Activation: Managed over 30 client integration activations, with 10 in production environments. – Process Optimization: Developed internal tools to automate and simplify integration activation tasks. – Critical Bug Resolution: Identified and resolved blocking issues affecting user group synchronizations.

– Created a new service to monitor our services' failovers, led 3 failover drills, investigated and mitigated issues with stakeholders that had trouble detecting DNS changes which led to reducing failover time from 15min to 2min. – Investigated and fixed a metrics issue that was blocking the migration of our stakeholders to the latest version of our Golang SDK. Proceeded to lead the migration and mitigate multiple issues along the way. – Added support for Uber's custom authentication solution in my team's service which complies with PSD2 directives, updated dozen of dependencies to fix CVEs etc...

– Develop, deploy and maintain a secure and robust application for visualizing streams of data collected by different sensors through customizable dashboards. – Stack: React/NodeJS with Typescript

– Design and develop an application in Typescript using p5.js to visualize software in an interactive map/dashboard similar to what can be done in data visualization tools.

– With a team of four other interns, worked on creating pertinent visual dashboards using Power BI to certify the company ISO 20000.