Faiyaz A
Builder at Kognitos
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolFaiyaz A is a product-focused builder with nine years of hands-on experience taking ideas from 0 to 1, twice serving as a founding engineer and currently building at Kognitos. Raised in Dharavi and a college dropout, he brings uncommon grit and early entrepreneurial drive—starting work at 15 and freelancing for international clients before joining Shaadi.com's core engineering team at 19. He’s contributed to high-scale rewrites and launches, including helping re-architect ESPNcricinfo for 100M monthly visitors and participating in Hotstar’s record concurrent viewership efforts. A prolific GitHub contributor (ranked Mumbai #1 and India #9 in 2022/23), he blends front-end craft—evident from projects like a React Instagram clone—and system-level thinking across UI, backend and ops. He also ships weekend side projects that explore product-market fit, reflecting a bias for rapid iteration and ownership. Faiyaz thrives in early-stage or revamp scenarios where an idea needs to become a reliable, user-facing product.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
InternetDropout, Bsc IT, Dropout, Bsc IT at St. Andrew's College of Arts, Science and Commerce
Stackoverflow
127reputation
207kreached
5answers
8questions
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
expressjs7
asynchronous6
css6
getelementsbyclassname6
enzyme6
vue6
higher-order-functions6
accordion6
vue-router6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yTakkar/React-Instagram-Clone-2.0
Feb 2018 - Dec 2021
A reactive Single-Page Instagram-Clone with some new features!! 💪📸👓 - No longer maintained.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:215 commits, 5 PRs, 173 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Faiyaz primarily focused on front-end development tasks, modifying the structure and appearance of the Instagram clone. They changed code within the `exp-groups.js` file and then bundled the javascript files. The commits involve the implementation of search functionality, and changes to comments.
social-networkreactexpressjsnew-featuresnodejs
yTakkar/Facemash
Dec 2017 - May 2019
A React app to vote 👍👎!!
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
social-networkreactvotevotingreactjs
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