Huzaifa Iftikhar
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHuzaifa Iftikhar is a Staff Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable backend systems at GitLab from New Delhi. He brings deep hands-on expertise in backend architectures while retaining a practical mobile-dev background, having contributed notable fixes and features to the well-known Open Food Facts Android app during Google Summer of Code. Comfortable across the stack, Huzaifa combines production-grade backend engineering with an eye for UX problems—evident from his work solving image handling and UI issues on mobile. A Jamia Millia Islamia B.Tech graduate, he blends disciplined engineering practices with open-source collaboration experience. Colleagues rely on him to deliver reliable, maintainable systems and to bridge gaps between product, mobile clients, and server-side services. He’s as likely to debug a crash as he is to shape system-level design decisions that improve developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
All India Senior School Certificate Examination, All India Senior School Certificate Examination at Father Agnel SchoolBachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Technology at Jamia Millia Islamia
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
debug10
android-sdk10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
kotlin-android10
firebase-authentication9
firebase6
heroku6
nodejs6
android-layout6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
(Legacy) Native version of Open Food Facts on Android - Coders & Decoders welcome 🤳🥫
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 reviews, 85 commits, 108 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Huzaifa primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing features within the Open Food Facts Android application. Their contributions include fixing crashes related to image interactions, adding UI elements such as a login button, and implementing app shortcuts for Android Nougat. They also addressed issues with product display, specifically fixing a pixelated red cross for missing images and adding options related to product searching. Additionally, they addressed encoding and parsing issues, ensuring correct information display.
gsocfoodandroidopenfoodfactskotlin
huzaifaiftikhar/openfoodfacts-androidapp
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Native port of Open Food Facts on Android - We need HELP :-)
Contributions:2 PRs, 139 pushes, 125 branches in 2 years 8 months
need-helpandroidfoodandroid-appfacts
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