# Faruq Yusuff

> Software Engineer @ Instagram

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/faruq

Software engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Instagram Safety Foundations Infrastructure

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Instagram Discovery Experience ENG

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta University: Engineering

Built Reesit, an android app that lets users digitize their physical receipts. Reesit lets users categorize, filter and search through their receipts
• Defined project timeline, user stories and stretch features
• Sketched wireframes and designed application interface and user experience
• Wrote algorithm to extract specific receipt metadata from pictures of physical receipts

### Software Developer @ The University of Alabama
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Work at University Libraries, The University of Alabama.

### Technical Writer @ Smashing Magazine
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
I write technical articles to help developers understand their tools and become better at what they do.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/yusuff-faruq/

### Technical Writer @ thekatana.tech
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Nigeria
I write technical articles to inform developers about various tools and technologies. I also write how-to tutorials to teach developers how to build certain projects.

### Professional Photographer @ Unreal Photos
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Technical Author @ LogRocket
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
I write technical articles on various topics ranging from React, Javascript to Cryptography. My articles are geared towards helping developers understand their tools, learn new tools and become better at what they do.

https://blog.logrocket.com/author/yusufffaruq/

### Technical Writer @ Alligator.io
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
I write technical articles to help developers understand their tools and become better at what they do.

### Intern @ Hotels.ng
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Nigeria
Build and scale real-life applications while working alongside other developers and UI designers in a team to deliver usable products.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The University of Alabama


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/faruq-yusuff
- GitHub: https://github.com/GoZaddy

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Last updated: 2026-03-30