Faizaan Sakib
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFaizaan Sakib is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead for Open Banking at Affirm with eight years of experience building scalable, secure backend and full‑stack systems. He has led platform initiatives at PolyAI, shipping a flagship analytics dashboard processing insights from over 30 million calls and owning features from data ingestion to interactive React visualisations. Comfortable across TypeScript, Python, React, Postgres, AWS and serverless patterns, he also drives engineering standards—introducing centralised docs, automated E2E testing, and CI/CD practices. A mentor and recruiter who has managed interns and interviewed candidates, Faizaan pairs hands‑on implementation with team orchestration and pragmatic product thinking. Based in London and trained with an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, he combines fintech and AI customer‑service experience to deliver reliable, user-focused systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels Maths Computer Science Physics, A Levels Maths Computer Science Physics at Royal Grammar School High WycombeHeckmondwike Grammar SchoolMEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (37)
javascript9
open-source9
test-suite8
testing-library8
e2e8
wait8
test-runner8
cypress8
testing8
angular-testing-library7
geographic7
wave7
stream7
browser7
component-testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fznsakib/faizaan.tech
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
My portfolio + blog website | Made with @Gatsbyjs
Contributions:1 release, 42 PRs, 63 pushes in 4 years 5 months
gatsbyreactportfolio-bloggatsbyjsblog-website
fznsakib/fznsakib
Aug 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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