Faisal Yaqub
Software Engineer at Notion
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaisal Yaqub is a seasoned mobile-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact iOS products at companies from startups to scale-ups and tech giants. He led major rewrites and architectural transformations at Slack—improving performance, accessibility, and navigation—and now brings that mobile and AI focus to Notion. His work spans shipping core messaging features, redesigning iPad and iPhone experiences, and pioneering A/B experimentation to drive growth. Early career roles at Apple and drchrono highlight deep platform and healthcare-app expertise, while contributions to ResearchKit show attention to code quality and memory management in an important open-source medical framework. Based in New York, Faisal pairs a designer’s eye with engineering rigor to push mobile boundaries and improve everyday user workflows. He combines product intuition with hands-on execution, often tackling the hardest parts of client performance and architecture.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Core: Credential of Readiness, Core: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School OnlineHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Webb SchoolsBachelor of Arts Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Religious Studies at Boston University
Github Skills (4)
ios10
objective-c10
memory-management10
researchkit9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ResearchKit/ResearchKit
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Faisal primarily focused on modifying the ResearchKit framework's iOS code. Their commits involved adjusting data property types to copy/strong, removing unused error properties, and correcting collections from strong to copy. This indicates a focus on code quality, memory management, and potentially addressing specific issues within the framework's internal structure. The user interacted with multiple parts of the project, changing code within consent, active tasks, and common modules of the ResearchKit framework.
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
fyaqub/ResearchKit
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
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