Saad Farooq
Senior Software Engineer - II at Life360
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSaad Farooq is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience and over a decade focused on mobile, particularly Android, currently driving platform improvements at Life360 from Boston. He blends hands-on engineering with developer productivity work—introducing Gradle composite builds and CI build-cache optimizations so teams can iterate faster without costly local SDK releases. Saad brings a systems mindset from earlier electrical and industrial automation roles, which shows up in his penchant for robust tooling, modular architectures, and JVM-first networking prototypes. He has led mobile chapters and staff-level engineering at Metromile, championing modern Kotlin patterns, better error-handling semantics, and open-source-friendly practices. Known for practical proofs-of-concept (OpenAPI3 codegen with polymorphic deserialization, JVM network testing), he prefers shipping ideas that reduce friction for fellow engineers.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Certificate, Science, Secondary School Certificate, Science at DHA Degree College for MenMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Tufts UniversityHigher Secondary Certificate, Science, Higher Secondary Certificate, Science at SKBZ High SchoolBE, Electrical, BE, Electrical at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyMasters, Information Technology, Masters, Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Urdu, Punjabi, English
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Github Skills (192)
sailfishos10
java10
android10
kotlin10
espresso10
unit-testing10
docker10
ecosystem9
qt9
openstreetmap9
golang9
unit-testing-framework9
mapbox-gl9
testing9
null-safety9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saadfarooq/docker-images
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
saadfarooq/android-migrate-gradle
Jun 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gradleandroidgradle-plugin
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