Summary
Faris Mohamed is a software engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across payments, infrastructure, and fintech-adjacent products. He has shipped features at scale at Lyft and GlossGenius and has a strong background in security-minded engineering, having focused on S3 access tooling, payments platforms, and resilient testing practices. His internship roles at Microsoft, Shopify, AWS, and others reflect a knack for turning prototypes into production-ready features using React, Go, and cloud-native tooling. Faris enjoys owning a product end-to-end and brings practical DevOps experience—improving CI/CD, chaos testing, and deployment workflows—that often reduces operational risk and accelerates delivery. Based in Canada, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a particular interest in tackling security and fintech problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carleton University