Jamal Fanaian
Principal Backend Engineer at Epic Games
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJamal Fanaian is a Principal Backend Engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable, secure platform services and leading identity and safety initiatives at Epic Games. He has deep hands-on expertise in server-side development across PHP, Go, Java, Python, and Node.js, and a strong background in authentication, authorization, and integrations that supported Fortnite’s rapid growth and multi-platform launches. As an engineering director he grew and architected the Identity organization, delivering family controls, verified parental consent, and account security features for millions of users. Prior to Epic he led API and server work at Flickr, shipping OAuth, push notifications, and social integrations. Comfortable across databases, messaging systems, and Linux ops, he pairs systems-level thinking with product-focused delivery. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he combines technical leadership with pragmatic engineering and cross-team collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Crooms Academy of Information TechnologySeminole State College of FloridaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (151)
python10
distributed-tracing10
windows10
instrumentation10
cmake10
automation10
visual-studio10
home-assistant10
cpp10
mjpeg10
modular10
reactive10
mqtt10
linux10
camera10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jamal/Mach
Sep 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
jamal/Chalk
Jul 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
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