Faisal Afzal

Faisal Afzal has a diverse work experience spanning several companies and roles. Faisal began their career as an Internee at Ontic-Technologies, where they were responsible for writing the grammar of an application used for generating a lexer and parser.

Faisal then worked at eDev Technologies as a Software Engineer, where they developed a core module of a product that generated JSP pages based on XML schema inputs.

At Avanza Solutions, Faisal worked as a Software Engineer Level 3, primarily focusing on the Track & Trace system. Their responsibilities included writing functional specifications, developing the system, and coaching junior developers.

Faisal then moved on to Juristis System in Sweden, where they worked as a Sr. Java JEE Developer. Here, Faisal developed a customizable product for lawyers that maintained case information and tracked day-to-day activities.

Faisal's next role was at Thomas Cook Nederland as a Java Developer, where they worked on the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Faisal was responsible for the routing, filtering, aggregations, and transformation of messages within the CDN system.

After that, they joined Info.nl as a Team Lead, where they helped develop new features and scale a Auctioneer platform for BVA Auctions. Their achievements included improving the core bidding platform and integrating it with invoicing and Exact software.

Faisal then worked at BBD as a Team Lead, leading remote teams of developers and conducting knowledge sharing sessions. Faisal also mentored junior developers and proactively identified problems to improve the software life cycle.

Currently, Faisal is working at HitPixel LLC as a Java Architect / Lead. Their role involves inspiring and leading the team to build cutting-edge solutions and actively bringing new ideas, technologies, and methodologies to the table. Faisal also ensures coding standards and best practices are followed to maintain quality and identifies problems to improve the software life cycle.

Faisal Afzal pursued their Master of Science (M.S.) in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology starting in 2008. The duration of their studies is not mentioned, suggesting that they may still be enrolled or has completed the program but the end year is unknown.