Fahad Zafar
Director Software Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery
Potomac, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFahad Zafar is a Director of Software Engineering with 12 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and leading multi-team engineering orgs, currently driving CNN Commerce product and catalog engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery. He combines academic rigor—a Ph.D. in Computer Science—with hands-on cloud and machine learning experience from roles at AWS, Nemetschek Vectorworks, and internships at Google and Amazon Lab126. Fahad has repeatedly delivered revenue-driving features and integrations (A/B testing, third-party syndication, Amazon API, AI support frameworks) that improved customer experience and editor productivity. Comfortable operating at both architectural and people-leadership levels, he’s scaled isolated regional services for invoicing/pricing at AWS and designed product backends underpinning double-digit YoY growth. A Stanford hackathon prize winner and active backend engineer, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to pragmatic, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S (hon) Computer Sciences, B.S (hon) Computer Sciences at University of the PunjabUMBC
c++, java, c#, cuda, glsl
Github Skills (29)
geometry9
style-transfer9
3d-reconstruction9
structure-from-motion9
computer-vision8
photogrammetry8
geometry-library8
api6
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
python5
machine-learning4
in-app-billing3
storekit3
java3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fahadzafar/PubNubTest
Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
fahadzafar/AppShop3D
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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