Faiz Ahmed Farooqui About

Principal Backend Engineer · Bangalore, India

Faiz Ahmed Farooqui

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Summary

Principal Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native, multi-tenant systems in fintech, healthcare, and SaaS. I work on secure digital payments, real-time data platforms, and backend architecture on AWS and OpenStack, with a track record of building regulatory-compliant solutions aligned with HIPAA, PCI DSS, COPPA, and GDPR. Along the way I've cut cloud costs by up to 60%, delivered production platforms for 500K+ users, and led teams of 6+ engineers.

Experience

Talendy Holdings — Lead Software Engineer

Bengaluru · June 2026 – Present

Technical leadership and strategy, development and quality, modelling and process.

GeekyAnts — Principal Engineer / Architect

Bengaluru · September 2015 – May 2026

  • Common Wallet Platform (Fintech) — Architected a white-label digital wallet for US banks, similar to Apple Pay. Built end-to-end encrypted payment infrastructure with AWS KMS + Nitro Enclaves, delivered a multi-tenant system for 10+ banks and 500K+ end-users, ensured PCI DSS and GDPR compliance, and cut fraud incidents by 25%.
  • Bolt.SH (Cloud IaaS) — Designed an OpenStack-powered IaaS platform with VM orchestration, virtual networking, and load balancing. Reduced external data-center costs by 60% and hardened infrastructure with compliance-aligned access controls and audit logging. Watch the series →
  • GlueStack Framework — Built a full-stack monorepo framework that standardized architecture across 30+ client projects, cut setup time by 40%, and shipped compliance-ready boilerplates for auth, logging, and API security.
  • Healthcare Management System — Built a modular, microservice-based HMS automating scheduling, billing, and reporting; improved operational efficiency by 40% with HIPAA-compliant PHI handling and audit trails.
  • COPPA-Compliant Social App — Developed a child-safety-compliant social platform backend in Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS, with data anonymization and parental-consent workflows.
  • Mentored 10+ engineers and drove adoption of trunk-based development with GitLab CI.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering — Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India (2011 – 2015).