Faris Mckay
Lead Software Engineer & Founder at nexel
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFaris Mckay is a London-based Lead Software Engineer and founder with 13+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance, enterprise-grade systems and consumer web platforms. He blends deep backend expertise in Core Java, low-latency networking and cloud enablement with front-end and full-stack delivery, having led teams and maintained complex production estates at Caplin Systems. As founder of NEXEL and previous founder of Bali Link, he combines technical leadership with product instincts to solve real-world market inefficiencies and deliver clean, intuitive applications. Comfortable liaising with clients and mentoring engineers, he has a track record of modernizing stacks, optimizing throughput, and shipping robust solutions under tight SLAs. An early game-studio team lead and long-term freelance developer, he brings an unusual mix of trading-floor discipline, gaming-scale reliability, and startup agility to every project.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering at University of Kent
English, Arabic
Github Skills (5)
java5
server5
timestamps4
java-game4
emulation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Faris-Mckay/Solace
Oct 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 5 months
emulatoremulationrunescape
Zap-Framework/Zap
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:10 commits, 1 issue in 4 months
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