Afnan Fahim
Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead Manager at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAfnan Fahim is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead manager with 11 years of experience designing and shipping user-facing features for Google Search across mobile web, desktop, and native apps. He has led major redesigns—launching Dark Mode, modernizing desktop and mobile search UX, and improving results for low-RAM and low-bandwidth environments—combining product sensibility with front-end engineering rigor. Based in New York and trained at Carnegie Mellon, he balances hands-on implementation with team leadership, mentoring engineers through large-scale UI initiatives. Notably, he focuses on the critical query formulation journey, shaping how users interact with search in subtle but measurable ways.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
French, Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (53)
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
eslint10
browserslist10
linter10
ecmascript10
visualization9
webgl9
python9
geospatial-analysis9
deck-gl9
maps9
data-visualization8
threejs8
typescript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
afahim/eslint-plugin-underscore-lodash-compatibility
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
lodashunderscore
afahim/eslint
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
javascriptpatternspluggablereporting
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