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Faraz Saifullah Ansari

@faraz-saifullah

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Full-stack engineer (6 yrs), exited founder; built products at VC-backed Hatica & Tekion.

India

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What I'm looking for

Early-stage or growth-stage teams where engineers own product decisions, ship fast, and stay close to customers—especially in AI, developer tooling, or data-driven SaaS. I thrive in distributed systems work, but enjoy wearing many hats, mentoring teammates, and helping a company scale from 0→1 and beyond.

I’m Faraz Saifullah Ansari, a product-minded full-stack engineer who loves turning complex, real-world problems into reliable, customer-delighting software.

Career highlights

Founding engineer – Hatica (Sequoia Surge)
- Designed an event-driven metrics pipeline with Temporal workflows, enabling real-time insights for 100+ paying customers and driving 30 % revenue growth.
- Built a self-serve onboarding dashboard that cut setup time from 7 days to 1 day.
- Led the transition to TypeScript, raised test coverage, and reduced critical issue MTTR from 3 days to 1 day with improved observability (New Relic) and on-call playbooks.
Software Engineer – Tekion (unicorn automotive SaaS)
- Completed 170 + engineering tickets—features, fixes, and performance work—at an average turnaround of 2.3 days.
- Shipped multi-site RO Sales, advanced search modules, and keyboard-first workflows that improved dealership productivity.
Exited founder – MyStoryBook.ai
- Bootstrapped, built, and sold an AI-generated children’s storybook platform for $50 K in six months.

Tech stack
TypeScript · React/Redux · Node.js · Temporal · GraphQL/REST · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · AWS EC2 · GitHub Actions · Python (Flask basics). Actively learning Go, Terraform, and gRPC.

What I’m looking for
Early-stage or growth-stage teams where engineers own product decisions, ship fast, and stay close to customers—especially in AI, developer tooling, or data-driven SaaS. I thrive in distributed systems work, but enjoy wearing many hats, mentoring teammates, and helping a company scale from 0→1 and beyond.

Outside of work you’ll find me tinkering with open-source experiments, reading engineering blogs, and running to clear my head.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Hatica Labs

May 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 8 months)

Integrated over 8 developer tools, including Azure DevOps and AWS CodePipeline, which contributed to a 30% increase in revenue and secured key enterprise clients. Designed customer onboarding dashboards, reducing setup time from seven days to one day and significantly improving product adoption.

Fullstack Development Full Stack Development Distributed Microservices TypeScript Temporal Workflows Elasticsearch SQL New Relic Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline Bitbucket

Software Engineer (Frontend)

Tekion Corp

Jun 2020 - May 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Completed over 170 engineering tickets, including NPS Survey enhancements and customer platform optimizations, with an average turnaround of 2.3 days. Improved system performance through keyboard navigation, detailed sales reports, and optimized customer workflows. Collaborated with PMs, QA, and leads to refine specifications, maintain code quality, and ship stable releases.

Software Development Lifecycle Frontend Development JavaScript React Agile Methodologies Jira Performance Optimization UI UX Software Development Life Cycle Git

Solutions Engineer (Full Stack)

Deqode

Jan 2019 - Present (6 years 6 months)

Built a real-time blockchain monitoring system achieving 100% accuracy in capturing user transactions. Used Redis-based job scheduling to update wallet balances efficiently.