Faizan Ali

Indigov empowers elected representatives (think Senators, Mayors) to effectively communicate with their constituents - allowing them to better understand their electorate and giving their constituents a louder voice. - Built, maintained multiple React apps and Node services in AWS as platform engineer - building full-stack features and infrastructure, setting high Typescript code quality standards, mentoring junior engineers. - Proactively conceptualized & engineered new email editor as largest product overhaul to date, across entire stack (Rails, Node, React, Zendesk) resulting in best in-class editing experience for Congressional staffers. - Introduced feature flags: trained team on usage, built utilities for services/apps, documented best practices. - Observability evangelist: instrumented Node services, lambdas, React apps with Datadog + Bugsnag, wrote logging utilities, outlined best practices. Set up alerts & processes - moving company from reactive => proactive in addressing critical issues, reducing production fires, and preventing client churn. - Pitched and maintained frontend “monorepo” - wrote utilities that significantly upgraded developer experience + efficiency and led efforts for code-reuse, readability, transparency, and strongly-typed GraphQL. - Introduced frameworks for testing backend Node services and async jobs running on Faktory (Sidekiq). - Successfully pitched GraphQL + own federated Apollo GraphQL Gateway built on NestJS deployed on Beanstalk - Oversaw audit into, and development of solution for zero-day vulnerability, managing engineering work of devs across the stack, and providing regular updates to executives.

Owner of Node + Typescript GraphQL service powering dashboard via RPC calls at 1000s req/min Conceptualized & engineered the “fallback dashboard”: mitigating catastrophic failure for millions by bypassing failure points + calling downstream services directly to build a cross-platform dashboard. Core engineer on Node service handling link exchange to enable deep-linking for native apps. Oversaw contributions + upgrades to web dashboard built in React + Apollo GraphQL as co-owner. Orchestrated alerts + graphs for: backend logs in Splunk, client impressions in Anodot, service health in Grafana, and spearheaded on-call best practices based on communication, transparency, empathy. Tech lead: Voter Roadmap effort to register (~250k voters) and provide voting resources to members in 2020 election. Guided architecture, coordinated product, design, legal, engineering, analytics, managed volunteers. Experimentation evangelist - brainstorming & building quick, robust full-stack A/B tests to drive key metrics (engagement/revenue) via cross functional collaboration & using data to guide product iteration.

Sole engineer - architected product as a modular Angular 4 SPA calling a Java Spring Boot REST API running Hibernate + MySQL, deployed through AWS CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS. Optimized front-end through combination of bundling, tree-shaking, lazy-loading, ahead-of-time compilation, async calls, Gzip, CDN. Developed API to parse CSV & XML files from partners to create profiles, saving thousands in costs and days otherwise spent physically gathering and transcribing paper forms. Leveraged Twilio, SendGrid, MailGun to build an in-app messaging + communication platform (akin to inbox).