Faris Chebib
Senior Full Stack Engineer at GeneDx
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaris Chebib is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across healthcare, genomics, real estate, and education technology. He combines deep Python/Django and API expertise with hands-on experience delivering clinical software, high-volume real-time systems, and WGS-driven patient tools. Faris has shifted between individual contributor and manager roles—co-founding and leading products as CTO at an education startup, running a consulting LLC for security and code audits, and guiding teams at companies like Invitae and WeWork. He also contributes to practical open-source Django tooling (helping improve project layouts and deployment docs), reflecting a pragmatic approach to maintainable systems. Based in Salt Lake City, he brings a strategic lens to engineering decisions and a track record of turning domain complexity into usable, auditable software.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBA Cognitive Science, BA Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
Arabic
Github Skills (7)
python10
virtualenv10
django10
wsgi9
documentation8
package-repository5
git-repository5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
twoscoops/django-twoscoops-project
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
The sample project layout from the book, "Two Scoops of Django 1.5 and 1.6"
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Faris primarily contributed to configuring and documenting the Django project setup. They added a `wsgi.py` file, updated settings, and included an `urls.py` file. The user also added instructions for virtual environment setup, including for Windows, and made corrections to the documentation. These changes primarily focused on the Django project structure and deployment configurations.
djangoproject-layout
octaflop/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:68 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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