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I’m Faraaz, a Fullstack developer who enjoys building fast, clean, and visually polished web experiences.

Bits, Bytes , and Me

From APIs to databases, I make machines do what I want them to.

Developer

Hey, I’m Faraaz Ashraf — a backend-focused Software Engineer dedicated to building clean, scalable, and reliable systems. I work at Klugsys, a Germany-based tech company, where I build backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Docker. My focus is on developing predictable, production-grade systems that prioritize clarity, maintainability, and long-term stability.

I love solving challenging technical problems — whether it’s designing high-performance APIs, optimizing data flow, or refining architecture to eliminate bottlenecks. My engineering approach ensures the systems I build are robust and future-ready. Clean code and predictable behavior guide how I work.

Before becoming backend-focused, I worked extensively with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS. This full-stack foundation helps me design backends that pair perfectly with real-world frontend requirements.

I’m deepening my backend expertise — exploring advanced FastAPI patterns, optimizing database performance, and strengthening DevOps workflows with Docker. I code daily, build side projects, and study system design to sharpen my fundamentals.

Beyond building real-world systems, I actively sharpen my problem-solving mindset through platforms like LeetCode. I enjoy breaking down complex algorithmic challenges, exploring patterns, and improving my speed and accuracy with data structures, dynamic programming, and system-level thinking. This constant practice strengthens how I approach backend engineering — helping me write more optimized logic, reason about performance edge cases, and make better architectural decisions.

Career Journey

Every experience unlocked a new skill, every project a new achievement.

Full Stack Developer

Klugsys • Aachen • Germany • Full-Time

Present

Built and maintain a multi-tenant analytics dashboard used daily by 500+ clients; own the Redux Toolkit/ RTK Query architecture across 15+ modules, cutting page load time by ~40% and redundant network calls by 25%.
Built backend services in Python & FastAPI on top of MongoDB and AWS RDS, moving core data workflows onto a cloud-native stack and cutting average response times by ~35%.
Containerized services with Docker and deployed them on AWS ECS, replacing manual deploys and cutting release time by roughly 50%.
Rolled out AWS Cognito for authentication across the FastAPI services, replacing ad-hoc session handling with managed, secure user auth.
Designed and shipped an automated Sentry - Azure DevOps ticketing pipeline with Redis-backed de-duplication,cutting manual triage time by 70% and ticket noise by 60%.

Full Stack Web Developer

DS Energize • New Delhi • India • Full-Time

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025

Built real-time IoT monitoring dashboards in Next.js that streamed live data from 5,000+ connected devices over MQTT and Socket.io, holding sub - second update latency in production.
Built the Node.js/Express ingestion service consuming the MQTT broker into MongoDB, handling upward of 2M + events / day; added indexing and a Redis caching layer that cut API response times by ∼30%.
Engineered robust data parsing logic to transform raw IoT logger data into structured, readable formats, improving data usability and storage efficiency.
Developed the frontend integration layer with Redux Toolkit / RTK Query for state management and cache normalization across device fleets.
Built a reusable component library adopted across 4 internal dashboards, cutting build time for new monitoring views by about 20 %.