# Moiz Farooq

> Senior Software Engineer @ BigCommerce

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

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed, high-performance cloud systems. Expert in RESTful API design, backend architecture, and scalable data pipelines. Proven track record in designing fault-tolerant infrastructure, improving system uptime, and mentoring engineers in best practices. Strong grasp of algorithms, data structures, and cloud-native development in AWS environments.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ BigCommerce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles County, California, United States
• Spearheaded the development of a cutting-edge Image Processing system, utilizing PHP for the API layer, Imagick for image transformations, Redis/MySQL for storage, and AWS S3 for image storage.
• Managed importing and exporting client inventory across multiple marketplaces, integrating with REST and GraphQL APIs such as Shopify, Rakuten, Etsy, Facebook, and BigCommerce, and enhancing overall operational efficiency.
• Implemented disaster recovery measures by creating ansible scripts for various production servers.
• Codeception tests 
• Mentoring junior developers with regular code reviews and technical assistance
• TypeScript/JavaScript for the occasional front-end web development

### Software Engineer @ Age of Learning, Inc. / ABCmouse.com
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Designing and implementing the entire back-end infrastructure for ReadingIQ and launching it successfully with my team.
• Developing API in PHP for rapid transaction applications
• Automating processes/jobs for data maintenance
• Writing and maintaining performant MySQL queries and databases, and Couchbase documents
• Adhering to strict company coding standards

### Software Engineer @ Faye Business Systems Group, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Woodland Hills, CA
• Extensive customization of SugarCRM [Customer Relationship Management] to meet client requirements
• Creating custom APIs and added functionality of SugarCRM
• Integrating a range of 3rd party software with SugarCRM using APIs or creating the bridge from scratch. Ex: Sage
ERP (via ODBC), Quickbase, Box, PandaDoc
• Working full stack (JS, jQuery, MySQL, PHP) on all of the above

### Database Manager @ Oremor Automotive Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
•	Created MySQL databases with local webpages to manipulate them.
•	Created complex databases in Microsoft Access using SQL and VB.
•	Created a review portal for multiple stores; PHP back end to email responses back to the stores
•	Managing all 13 websites for the group; constantly improving user experience. 
•	Various digital marketing and CRM responsibilities.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering
UCLA
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/moiz-farooq

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Last updated: 2026-03-22