Sohaib Farooqi
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSohaib Farooqi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building backend and data-driven systems across e-commerce and ad-tech. He has progressed from senior engineering roles at Zameen.com to backend engineering at Leadbook and Adjust, and now focuses on scalable platform work at Zalando. Known as a data-minded engineer, he blends backend architecture with practical data engineering to turn large, messy datasets into reliable production services. His career shows a pattern of taking ownership in mid-to-large organizations, improving reliability and throughput in high-traffic systems. Trained in Computer Software Engineering at NUST, he pairs solid academic foundations with hands-on delivery in distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who quickly adapts domain knowledge into production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, German
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Github Skills (200)
python10
fairness-ml10
recall10
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queue10
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nodejs10
watson10
redis10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sohaibfarooqi/hierarchical-data
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 59 pushes in 2 years 6 months
sohaibfarooqi/flask-stargate
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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