Abas Farah
Embedded Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbas Farah is an embedded software engineer based in Austin with 10 years of experience building firmware and cloud-connected systems. Currently on an SoC firmware team at AWS, he brings a rare blend of embedded firmware expertise and full-stack web experience from projects using Django, Spring Boot and React. His background includes multiple software engineering roles and internships at top tech firms—AWS, Google, Coinbase and Target—where he shipped production services, implemented real-time metrics, and built a store-locating service with complete test coverage. Comfortable across hardware-near development and cloud services, Abas pairs hands-on coding with metrics-driven monitoring to keep systems observable and reliable. He studied Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota and has a track record of contributing to cross-functional projects leveraging cloud APIs and modern web stacks.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
English, Somali, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
shoes10
asdf9
arch9
mutt8
netlify7
zsh7
vim7
shell6
linux6
bash6
static-site6
git5
github-pages4
static-site-generator3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abasnfarah/dotfiles
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
This is a repository that holds my dotfiles. Can install dotfiles from shell script for mac and arch.
Contributions:1 release, 207 commits, 73 PRs in 4 years 9 months
zsh-dotfilesvimzsh-setupzsh-configurationmutt
abasnfarah/abasfarah.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Developing a static personal site using Github pages
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 98 commits in 2 years 8 months
static-sitedevelopingnetlifystatic-site-generator
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