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Faisal Minawi

@faisalminawi

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AI-focused software engineer building scalable, high-performance systems and ML solutions.

Lebanon

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What I'm looking for

I seek a fast-paced, mission-driven team where I can lead engineering efforts, build scalable ML-enabled systems, and drive measurable product impact while growing technically and taking on leadership responsibilities.

I am an AI-focused software engineer with hands-on experience building scalable microservices, high‑traffic APIs, and production ML systems that serve hundreds of thousands to millions of users. I prioritize reliability, performance, and pragmatic integration of third‑party services to reduce costs and accelerate development.

My background blends full‑stack software engineering and applied machine learning: I have architected enterprise fintech microservices, developed fault‑tolerant APIs with sub‑100ms responses, and led ML projects that improved diagnostic and translation performance. I deliver measurable results—Uptime at 99.9%, significant latency reductions, and tangible cost savings through vendor analysis.

I lead cross‑functional teams, improve developer experience, and drive product decisions through data and comparative analysis. I am eager to contribute technical leadership and continue building impactful, user‑centric systems in fast‑paced, mission‑driven environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

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Walleti

Aug 2025 - Present (10 months)

Architected an 8-service NestJS fintech microservices ecosystem processing seven transaction types with 99.9% uptime and delivered 35+ API endpoints for card management, KYC, and transaction processing with sub-100ms responses.

NestJS Kafka Microservices API Design Authentication Performance Optimization

Software Engineer

Wego

Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 (8 months)

Engineered seven high-traffic APIs serving 500,000+ users with a fault-tolerant architecture achieving 99% uptime and implemented caching and multithreading that reduced response times by 67%.

API Development Caching Multithreading Distributed Locking Performance Tuning Data Pipelines Reliability Engineering Cost Analysis

Machine Learning Trainee

ZAKA.AI

Oct 2024 - May 2025 (7 months)

Built transformer-based medical AI bot accelerating diagnosis time by 40%, developed an English–French translation model with 97% F1 on test sentences, and led a 3-person team to deploy a sentiment analysis tool with 94% accuracy.

Transformers PyTorch TensorFlow NLP Model Evaluation Data Analysis scikit learn

Software Engineer Intern

Talpods

May 2024 - Nov 2024 (6 months)

Led intern communications and stakeholder coordination, built a 95%-accurate AI profile generation system using OpenAI APIs that reduced profile creation time from 4+ hours to under 4 minutes, and developed 4 AWS Lambda microservices with DynamoDB and RBAC.

AWS Lambda DynamoDB Serverless RBAC Microservices Stakeholder Management Automation)Automation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

American University of Beirut

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2020 - 2024

Grade: GPA 3.89

Activities and societies: Dean's Honor List (5 semesters); TEDxAUB Main Event Organizer; Millennium Fellowship Campus Director; Arabic LLM AI Benchmark contributor; various leadership and community development programs.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a strong academic record (GPA 3.89), focusing on AI and software engineering principles and participating in research and leadership programs.