Fayaz Khan
Back-end Developer at Apexon
Pickering, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFayaz Khan is a seasoned back-end developer with 13 years of experience building scalable Python systems across cloud and on-prem environments, currently focused on backend work at Apexon. He has led teams and owned large VFX pipeline services at Technicolor, operating distributed systems across multiple continents and handling air-gapped deployments, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation. Fayaz pairs deep hands-on engineering—Python, Flask/Django, Celery, Kubernetes, Terraform—with practical leadership in roadmap planning, mentoring, and stakeholder-driven architecture. He contributes to open-source tooling as well, notably improving a Python logging replacement by refactoring message queue handling and documenting integrations with AMQP, Redis and MongoDB. Based in Pickering, Ontario, he also explores desktop and mobile app development and brings a long-standing passion for the FOSS development model to production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 8 - 12, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 8 - 12 at Model Technical Higher Secondary SchoolBTech, Computer Science & Engineering, BTech, Computer Science & Engineering at Model Engineering College
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
kombu10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
message-queue10
logging9
documentation8
flask-admin6
hardlink6
ajax6
mercurial6
sql6
sqlalchemy6
supervisord6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
getlogbook/logbook
Mar 2013 - Jun 2014
A cool logging replacement for Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fayaz primarily focused on refactoring and improving the logging library's message queue functionality. They renamed classes related to message queue handling and subscriber implementations for clarity and backward compatibility. Additionally, they improved documentation for the `MessageQueueHandler` and `MessageQueueSubscriber` classes, including examples and explanations of configuration options for various message queue backends such as AMQP, Redis, and MongoDB. Furthermore, they addressed an issue by converting `record.extra` into `ExtraDict`.
loggerpythonreplacementlogging
fayazkhan/fuzzy-autocomplete
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
An autocomplete search that's very forgiving on misspelled words
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
autocomplete-searchwordsmisspelledautosuggestautocomplete
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