Farwa Naqi
Senior Software Engineer at WhatsApp
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFarwa Naqi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building privacy-conscious client features at WhatsApp after a strong tenure on Messenger and Facebook’s Commerce Platform. Based in Seattle and trained at the University of Waterloo, she brings deep mobile and backend expertise gained from roles at Meta, Uber, Eventbrite and startups, spanning iOS, Android, Core APIs and distributed systems. Her work often focuses on shipping secure, scalable client-side privacy features and growth-oriented messaging capabilities for products used by millions. Notably, she has a track record of delivering measurable impact early in her career—implemented barcode scanning that saved $65K on a single contract and improved offline performance via Core Data integrations. Comfortable across the stack, she blends rigorous engineering (unit tests, API design, OAuth flows) with product-minded execution. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex platform requirements into reliable, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Ontario Secondary School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Robert Bateman High SchoolBachelor's Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Urdu
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Github Skills (21)
ios10
swift10
macos10
objective-c9
cocoapods8
xcode8
css7
sdk7
carthage7
coredata6
nsfetchedresultscontroller6
mobile6
svg5
fonts5
font-awesome3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UWEngineeringSociety/EngSoc-Website
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 5 days
faarwa/CustomFit
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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