Faisal S
Software Engineer Intern at Primer
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFaisal S is a software engineer and University of Waterloo student with a surprising seven years of hands-on experience across startups and education-focused orgs, currently interning at Primer to rethink American education systems from first principles. He’s built production features at scale—such as a Ruby on Rails courses engine serving 30k DAUs at Whop—and helped ship foundational products as an early engineer at Wispr Flow and a founding engineer at Dimension. An active open-source contributor and front-end developer on Hack Club’s popular Sprig game editor, he focuses on polishing UX through bug fixes, sharing features, and AI-enabled UI improvements. Founder of firefiles.app and an engaged Hack Club member, Faisal blends product-minded web development (Next.js) with practical system design and fast iteration across both codebases and teams.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
game-development10
game-engine10
gameplay10
videogames10
ui-design9
html9
css9
react8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hackclub/sprig
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
🍃 Learn to code by making games in a JavaScript web-based game editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Faisal primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Sprig game editor. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to sprite naming, enhancing the sharing functionality by adding a copy-to-clipboard button, and integrating a new announcement banner for a related game jam. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project's UI by adding a challenge menu, making UI adjustments, and working on the AI feature. This indicates a focus on improving the user experience and overall presentation of the game editor.
javascriptgamegame-developmentgame-enginepuzzle
hackclub/slacker
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Slacker is an attempt to organize and systematize our developer/customer support use cases into something that is easy to manage and measure, and also is welcoming of newcomers wanting to help participate on projects.
Contributions:12 reviews, 39 PRs, 218 pushes in 11 months
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