Faizel Dakri
Chief Information Officer
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaizel Dakri is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Officer with over two decades of hands-on engineering and enterprise delivery experience, now leading IT at Wallis Bank. He began his career building object-oriented systems and consulting on Apple technologies and WebObjects before moving into Java-centric enterprise development at Experian Healthcare. Known for strong client-facing skills, Faizel blends technical depth in backend systems and code generation with pragmatic delivery—evidenced by his contributions to the Apache Cayenne Maven plugin that improved configuration flexibility for data-model generation. Based in Houston, he pairs a dual BA/BS background from UT Austin with a track record of turning complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge executive strategy and low-level implementation details, ensuring projects meet both business and technical goals.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
maven10
javas10
databases10
c-library10
common-library10
java10
standard-library10
database10
velocity9
xml7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cayenne
May 2020 - May 2020
Mirror of Apache Cayenne
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Faizel primarily contributed to the Apache Cayenne Maven plugin, enhancing its functionality. Their work included adding support for system properties within the plugin's configuration and enabling the specification of an external Velocity tool configuration file. Furthermore, they refactored and updated code across multiple files, primarily focused on class generation and configuration aspects, streamlining the codebase to improve usability and flexibility. These changes likely benefited the overall development process, particularly when creating data models within the Cayenne framework.
network-clientxmlapachecayennedatabase
faizel/cayenne
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Mirror of Apache Cayenne
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 1 year 2 months
javaapachecayenne
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