Shehryar Farooq
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolShehryar Farooq is a Software Development Manager at Amazon with 12 years of experience building web and mobile applications, leading teams from individual contributor to senior engineering and management roles. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he has deep hands-on experience across large-scale enterprise systems, test automation, and full-stack development gained at Amazon, IBM, TELUS, and SugarCRM. He has driven architectural work and delivery on high-impact projects at IMDb/Amazon, and earlier built reusable frameworks and automation tools (including an open-source Java testing framework) that improved test parallelization and CI reliability. Known for moving quickly from prototypes to production, he blends pragmatic engineering with mentoring and cross-team collaboration. Based in Ontario, he combines a strong enterprise engineering pedigree with a continued interest in open-source and developer tooling. An understated strength is his repeated track record of extending internship work into long-term contributions and ownership roles.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
dojo6
html6
jakartaee6
el6
eclipse6
javascript6
axis6
testing4
capybara3
test-automation2
automation2
webkit2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
sugarcrm/candybean
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:95 commits in 2 months
testingautomationtest-automation
Ownageful/DSProj3
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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