Faraz Akhtar
Senior Software Engineer at Fearless
Windermere, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaraz Akhtar is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack systems, currently leading technical delivery for Business.NJ.gov and coordinating API and Boomi integrations across multiple state agencies. He combines a background in auditing and compliance with software delivery, which helps him design reliable, accessible solutions that meet both technical and regulatory needs. Faraz has driven platform refactors, test automation, and shared UI components to reduce QA cycles and speed time-to-launch for thousands of users. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has added backend capabilities to SeeQR, a database analytics project that helps teams compare schema and query efficiency. Based in Windermere, Florida, he enjoys mentoring teammates and translating complex business requirements into simple, scalable engineering outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting, Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting at George Mason University
Github Skills (6)
database-management10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
electron9
nodejs8
sql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/SeeQR
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
A database analytic tool that allows developers to compare the efficiency of different schemas and queries on a granular level to make better informed architectural decisions regarding SQL databases at various scales.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 32 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Faraz primarily focused on adding and modifying back-end functionalities for a database analytic tool. Their commits include the implementation of database dropping capabilities, modification of database creation queries, and the integration of schema import features. They also updated helper functions for database operations. These changes directly relate to the tool's ability to interact with and manage SQL databases.
decisionsmysqlanalyticsqldatabases
FarazA22/GitPlayground
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 16 days
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