Summary
Ahmed Farooki is a senior full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput web and distributed systems, currently contributing to Meta’s Infra and Data Centers Production Services Automation team. He specializes in JavaScript/Node.js and modern front-end stacks like React and GraphQL while also bringing backend expertise in Python, Hack/PHP, REST/OAuth2, and event-driven architectures backed by PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Ahmed has a track record of measurable impact—doubling system throughput, slashing onboarding time with containerized developer environments, and operating production systems for millions of users. He combines deep hands-on implementation across generations of the web stack with a pragmatic, end-to-end ownership approach that prioritizes simplicity, performance, and maintainability. Unusually, he augments engineering with agentic AI tooling to explore solution spaces and automate repetitive tasks, accelerating iteration without losing focus on high-leverage design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at De Anza College
Computer Science, Computer Science at San José State University
English, Urdu, Punjabi, French