Senior engineer with a track record of owning high-complexity technical problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI. Built and shipped systems at AWS and Uber scale, from 25x performance improvements to AI agents in production for mainframe modernization. Work best on ambiguous, high-stakes problems with direct stakeholder ownership.

Farouk Faiz

Senior engineer with a track record of owning high-complexity technical problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI. Built and shipped systems at AWS and Uber scale, from 25x performance improvements to AI agents in production for mainframe modernization. Work best on ambiguous, high-stakes problems with direct stakeholder ownership.

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Senior engineer with a track record of owning high-complexity technical problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI. Built and shipped systems at AWS and Uber scale, from 25x performance improvements to AI agents in production for mainframe modernization. Work best on ambiguous, high-stakes problems with direct stakeholder ownership.

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Language

Javanese
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Work Experience

Software Engineer - Freelance at Qasten
December 1, 2025 - Present
Taking on contracts across backend systems, AWS infrastructure, and agentic AI. 2nd place, Raise Your Hack 2025 (largest AI hackathon in Europe).
Software Engineer at Amazon (AWS) (Paris)
September 1, 2022 - December 1, 2025
Agentic AI: Architected and led end-to-end implementation of agentic AI systems for large-scale mainframe modernization (COBOL to Java), integrating LLMs with internal tooling, HITL controls, and secure execution pipelines. CI/CD: Designed and owned an automated CI/CD pipelines infrastructure on AWS, adopted by 50+ engineers across multiple teams and executed 10,000+ times. 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. Migration: Co-led a 5-month Java 8 to 17 and Spring Boot 2 to 3 migration across a large codebase, coordinating with 50+ impacted engineers. Appointed Security Guardian for the org - owned the security review process across the org, proactively initiated reviews, and participated in the majority of org-wide security assessments.
Software Engineer at 360Learning (Paris)
March 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022
Shipped an integration monitoring dashboard end-to-end; managed 30+ client integration activations.
Software Engineer at Uber (Amsterdam)
March 1, 2021 - August 1, 2021
Built a failover monitoring service and led 3 failover drills; diagnosed DNS propagation issues across dependent teams, reducing failover time from 15 minutes to 2 minutes. Unblocked a Golang SDK migration by identifying and fixing a metrics instrumentation bug; led the migration end-to-end. Added support for Uber's custom authentication solution in our service to comply with PSD2 directives.
Software Engineer at Xelya
January 1, 2019 - December 1, 2019
Full-stack and data visualization engineering roles.
Software Engineer at Klee Group
January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2020
Full-stack and data visualization engineering roles.
Software Engineer at JetSoft
January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
Full-stack and data visualization engineering roles.

Education

Data Science and Engineering track at Eurecom
September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2022
Engineering degree in computer science at IMT Atlantique
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2022

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services