# Faizaan D. > Software Engineer @ Stripe Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/faizaan ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Systems Engineer Lead @ Cornell Mars Rover Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York, United States ### Software Lead @ Cornell Mars Rover Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 • Leading an eight-person team that builds controls software for a semi-autonomous rover that competes in the annual University Rover Challenge. • Launched an initiative to transform the controls software documentation with both client-level information and detailed implementation commentary better suited to the high turnover environment inherent to student-run project teams. • Designing improved interfaces for controlling the rover, including a streamlined command-line interface and a user-friendly graphical dashboard for rover operation built with React and Electron. • Collaborating with each of the other subteams to ideate new features and improvements to the controls software, and working with other members of the software subteam to break these concepts into realizable subtasks. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer Intern @ ServiceNow Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Implemented several front-end features on the Lists and Condition Builder UX team using JavaScript and Sass. • Collaborated with broader team in an Agile environment, including design and quality engineers, to robustly build out features with accessibility in mind. • Won second place in ServiceNow's Intern Hackathon for a project involving natural language processing using Python frameworks. • Gained experience navigating a large internal developer ecosystem by regularly consulting with other teams for recommendations on best practices during implementation. ### Full Stack Developer @ Umoja Outreach Foundation Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Pioneered a cross-platform mobile app using Flutter, which provides powerful career, networking, and mentorship tools to hundreds of users across 53 communities. • Created a centralized system for sending emails and push notifications to users depending on their subscription preferences, from an administrative panel that was built in React. This vastly improved the ability for marketing to notify potential clients about Umoja’s programs. • Designed and implemented a unified user profile system using Firebase Authentication and ExpressJS. Allows clients to use one account to access all services on both the website and app, adding a layer of familiarity that drove adoption of the mobile app upon launch. • Leveraged the business logic component pattern and ReactiveX-Dart library to build reactive mobile interfaces while limiting database transactions within the budget range. ### Back End Developer @ 247 Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 • Designed and implemented a performant data dashboard, which employs Laravel task queues and WebSockets to make calculations and update values in the background without interrupting the user’s flow. • Implemented and refactored features in existing PHP codebases according to my team’s specifications, using RESTful API guidelines and object-oriented principles like inheritance to maximize extensibility for future maintainers. • Gained familiarity with the Agile development process by planning sprints with project managers via Jira and implementing feedback given during weekly team meetings. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Cornell University Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 ### High School Diploma in General Studies Parkland High School Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/faizaand - Website: https://faizaan.dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/faizaan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/faizaan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22