Farhan Rahman
Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolFarhan Rahman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience specialising in front-end development and developer-facing platforms. At Zendesk he helped modernise the developer ecosystem—rebuilding documentation with React/Gatsby to dramatically improve performance and accessibility, and contributing to marketplace and app frameworks that power third-party integrations. He bridges front-end UI polish and backend services, having worked on both React frontends and Rails payment/marketplace systems, plus CLI tooling migrations from Ruby to Node. Farhan also contributes to open-source demo apps, focusing on React/CSS improvements such as migrating Zendesk Garden styling across sample projects. His background in mechanical engineering gives him a systems-minded approach to UX and performance trade-offs, making him effective at improving both developer and end-user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (3)
css10
front-end-development9
javascript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/demo_apps
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Farhan primarily focused on updating the Zendesk Garden styling within the demo apps. Their contributions included migrating and updating the Zendesk Garden CSS library used in several sample apps. They also refined the code to link the correct Garden CSS versions, addressing comments and clarifying the usage of different versions and the 'latest' endpoint. The changes mainly affect the visual presentation and styling of UI components within the Zendesk apps.
fvzzy/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:193 commits, 87 pushes in 1 year
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