Faraz Haider
Senior Software Engineer at Acast AB
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolFaraz Haider is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with a decade of experience building high-performance, low-latency backend systems. He has driven architectural rewrites—most notably migrating a sportsbook to event sourcing to reduce microservices and technical debt—and built production-critical middleware handling millions of transactions per day. Comfortable across the stack, he has delivered tools for deployment automation, monitoring, and bespoke key-value stores (including an Elixir-based Sparse Merkle tree implementation) that hint at a strong systems and cryptography-oriented mindset. Faraz combines hands-on coding with mentoring and project leadership, guiding teams through complex technical trade-offs. He brings proven expertise in scalable distributed systems, observability, and operational reliability, with a background that spans avionics-grade embedded work to high-volume web services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Manipal Institute of TechnologyCity Montessori School, Lucknow
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
filesystem8
blockchain8
merkle-tree8
erlang8
ios6
statsd6
iphone6
deep-linking6
elixir4
consensus3
graphite3
docker-image3
ethereum3
docker3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
farazhaider/farazhaider.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
farazhaider/futstats
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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