Faraz Syed
Engineering Manager at Lyft
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFaraz Syed is an engineering manager and software delivery architect with over a decade of experience building high-performing, customer-focused teams and developer platforms across large enterprises like Stripe, Walmart, and Lyft. He specializes in developer productivity, frontend toolchains, and platform engineering—driving migrations to TypeScript, standardizing toolchains for hundreds of engineers, and cutting CI/build times at scale. Faraz blends hands-on technical leadership (from Go and Node to React/React Native and build systems) with people-first management, coaching engineers into senior and staff roles while instilling DevOps and SRE practices. He’s known for pragmatic culture change—favoring outcomes over frameworks—and has a track record of delivering continuous value through strangler patterns, monorepo consolidations, and bespoke infrastructure like Knit/Craton. Based in Mississauga and grounded in a chemical engineering M.A.Sc. from Waterloo, he also writes about engineering culture and delivery at indexandmain.com.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering, M.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Urdu, French, English
Github Skills (50)
javascript10
get-started10
prefetch10
viewport10
nodejs10
user-management8
verify8
npm8
expressjs7
identity7
jwt7
authentication7
oauth7
sso-authentication6
documentation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HiFaraz/character
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 288 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
authorizationnode-jsuser-managementauthenticationnodejs
HiFaraz/asyncpipe
Jan 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 11 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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