# Faazil S.

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/faazil

I'm a full stack software engineer - building with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, & more - in the San Francisco Bay Area with experience in event streaming and containerized deployment.

I co-created Crato, an open source log management framework built with Node.js, Rsyslog, Apache Kafka, InfluxDB and AWS S3. Learn more: crato-logging.github.io

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ NationBuilder
Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States

### Jr. Software Engineer @ NationBuilder
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Co-Creator & Software Engineer @ Crato
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Crato is an open source framework for small applications to easily deploy centralized logging. Crato is built with Node.js, Bash, Rsyslog, Apache Kafka, InfluxDB, AWS S3, and Docker.
- Learn more: https://crato-logging.github.io
- Crato offers Bash app on client machines to setup Rsyslog to capture & forward logs
- Crato creates a Rsyslog central logging server to process logs into text and json,
transport logs to Apache Kafka, & uses Node.js for delivery to InfluxDB and AWS S3
- Reduced barriers to centralized logging; Crato deploys in 2 easy commands
- Implemented Docker to containerize services and orchestrate install & use
- Wrote custom CLI with Node.js to simplify more difficult Docker CLI, handle race
conditions, & simplify common logging workflows such as live-tail and grep.
- Developed Crato website with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
- Designed & created diagrams and other graphic visuals for case-study & website.

### Software Engineer @ Freelance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Built full-stack web applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration, Marketing
University of California, Riverside
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/f1s
- Website: https://fshaikh.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20