Hi all, I'm Faisal 👋

Curiosity-fueled Software Engineer working at the intersection of C++, embedded systems, and performance optimization. Passionate about system design, debugging and pushing hardware to its limits — while occasionally crafting websites just because I can.

Skills & Tools

THE SKILLS, TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES I USE TO BRING PRODUCTS TO LIFE

cpp
gdb
linux
vxworks
agile jira
git
github
rest-apis
html-5
css3
sass
php
javaScript
jquery
nodejs
graphql
reactjs
material-ui
mongoDB
sql
aws
firebase

⚡ Enhancing optical networking solutions by optimizing C++ code, debugging critical issues, and improving system stability on Linux and VxWorks platforms.

⚡ Designing and optimizing embedded systems for high-performance networking, ensuring seamless hardware-software integration and maximum efficiency.

⚡ Developing highly interactive, fully responsive, and minimalistic front-end/user interfaces for web applications.

Educational Qualifications

M. Sc. Computer Science

DUCS
University of Delhi

2020 – 2022

Key subjects:
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Advanced Operating Systems
Mobile and Satellite Communication Networks
Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
GPA: 8.1

B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science

Ramanujan College
University of Delhi

2017 – 2020

Key subjects:
Data Structures and Algorithms
Operating Systems
Computer Networks
Discrete Structure
GPA: 8.4

Work Experiences

Ciena Ind Pvt Ltd

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2022 – Current

⚡ Developing embedded software for 6500 & 5400 platforms, optimizing 1TB & 1.2TB line cards for better performance.
⚡ Enhancing OSRP features on the L1 Control Plane, improving network efficiency and resilience.
⚡ Debugging critical issues on Linux & VxWorks, ensuring stable and reliable system performance.
⚡ Collaborating with teams to integrate advanced networking features for seamless hardware-software interaction.
⚡ Designing scalable C++ solutions, optimizing performance and future-proofing code.

MRV Research

Front-end developer

July 2019 – May 2020

Worked part-time during my grad-college for MRV to create tech for an US based startup - MyFastClaim
⚡ Developed the front-end for a web app, client dashboard, and website using React.js & JavaScript for a seamless user experience.
⚡ Built interactive data visualization with charts, graphs, and geolocation maps using Chart.js & Leaflet.js to enhance insights.
⚡ Hosted & deployed the entire platform using AWS services (S3, Route 53, CloudFront) for reliability and performance.
⚡ Integrated Google Workspace email services, enabling domain-based, professional communication.

Pet Projects

A SELECTION OF SOME OF THE COOL STUFF I'VE DONE.

To see my least embarassing commisioned and side projects, please visit my github profile.

CLI-Dating is a terminal based online-dating application. Browse profiles, like people, get matches, all from your command line! Matching people purely based on vibes

A beautiful and simple social media application built using the MERN tech-stack along with GraphQL and SemanticUI.

A fun little memory game written in JavaScript and powered by CSS3. Using the Avengers cards because I love them 3000.

Get beautiful, dynamically generated unofficial github cards. An api endpoint /api?username=<github-username> is designed to get SVGs of your card directly in your webpage or github-readmes

An e-diary (daily journal) built with NodeJS, embeded JavaScript and mongoDB. It comes with MongoDB to ensure fast access to the data(as it stores the working set in it's internal memory) and easily scalable database for multiple users, if need be.

A fully responsive, cross-browser functional file management system with basic functionalities to create, edit, rename or delete a file and view it's information in a discretely allocated space for the user.

A collaboration over some illustrations we designed while being stuck at home during the corona-virus lockdown. Learnt some adobe illustrator for it.

A nodeJS project which hosted human-handoff operations between a chatbot and a customer, and when conversation escalate, an operator and the customer. Using priority-queues and some algorithms, it creates a operator handling system.

Commissioned Projects

Designed and developed the web-application for an an insurance-tech startup

Digitized an NGO's operations by building their online platform and database

Endorsements

NICE THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT ME

Ridhwan Luthra

CTO, MRV Research

Faisal worked as a front-end dev with us. He has been terrific - collaborative, diligent, honest and professional, offering solutions we had not thought about. We have found that he delivers efficiently and in a timely manner.

His work on our webapp and dashboard successfully communicate to prospective clients the kind of people and has brought innumerable clients to us through a streamlined and attractive website. I would recommend Faisal in a heartbeat.

Vikas Kamboj

Project Manager, MRV Research

Working with Faisal has been a pleasure. Through in-depth questions, he has a knack for hitting the nail on the head with branding requirements first time round, saving valuable time on a lot of back and forth.

With his skills and natural creativity, he works quickly and efficiently, presenting professional options and offering sound advice to translate the vision in my head into work beyond what I envisioned. I have been thrilled with the results!

Shubhangi Goyal

President, Centre for Social Innovation

An amazing teammate to work with. We were together in the Center for Social Innovation. Faisal worked as the technical head in the society. He is perfect in whatever work he does. He built a website for the society in which many NGOs were linked under one umbrella. He built a user-friendly website and engaged his juniors in the same.

He is really talented and thinks out of the box, an all-rounder. Completely devoted towards his work and always ready to help the needy and poor.

Reach out to me!

Optical Networks & Embedded Systems 🚀 Low-Level Code, High-Impact Solutions 💡 Web Designer for Fun 🎨

New Delhi, India

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