Uzair Farooq
Chief Executive Officer at PennyCanny
Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolUzair Farooq is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications and developer tools across Node.js, PHP, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React. He led product and engineering efforts at startups like CouponFollow and Convo, shipping chatbots, browser extensions, and high-performance backend systems that scale to thousands of requests per second. A top-rated Upwork freelancer with a 100% job success rate, he’s also the author of arrive.js, an open-source library for detecting DOM element creation and removal, demonstrating a knack for solving practical front-end problems. Based in Pakistan, he blends hands-on engineering, product instincts, and entrepreneurial leadership, and occasionally writes about his work and learnings on his personal blog.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, 3.34, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, 3.34 at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
2,402reputation
294kreached
40answers
8questions
event-handling
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google-chrome
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google-chrome-extension
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Github Skills (13)
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
mutationobserver10
event-handling9
jquery9
testing9
dom9
google-chrome-extension9
google-chrome9
dynamic9
html6
twitter6
manifest6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uzairfarooq/arrive
Jan 2014 - Mar 2021
Watch for DOM elements creation and removal
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 136 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Uzair's primary contribution involved the development of a JavaScript library focused on detecting and responding to DOM element creation and removal. Their work included the initial implementation of the core functionality, adding test cases to validate the library's behavior, and refactoring the code for improved maintainability. Furthermore, the user implemented support for event unbinding, and made code modifications for enhanced functionality and better code structure. This work directly aligns with the repository's purpose of providing a solution for DOM element monitoring.
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uzairfarooq/uzairfarooq.github.com
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:134 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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